On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 09:54:38AM -0400, Stephen Powell wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:58:30 -0400 (EDT), Rick Pasotto wrote:
> >
> > Last weekend I did a bunch of updates (to testing) and rebooted after
> > almost six months.
>
> You really should upgrade more often than that when running testing.
>
> > Somewhere in that process the ata drive got UUIDs assigned to the
> > partitions and /etc/fstab was modified.
>
> I suspect what happened is a migration from kernel 2.6.32-3-xxx
> to kernel 2.6.32-5-xxx, which installs linux-base, which tries to
> convert system files such as /etc/fstab,
> /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume, and other system files
> to use UUIDs whenever possible, rather than /dev/hdax references.
> The UUIDs were already assigned to the partitions. The partitions
> just weren't being mounted by UUID, they were being mounted by
> device name. Now they are mounted by UUID.
>
> > Now they won't mount.
>
> Yes, they are still being mounted.
No, they are not! They do not show up with 'df'.
> They just have different device names now. That is due to a change in
> device drivers between the 2.6.32-3-xxx kernel and the 2.6.32-5-xxx
> kernel. The 2.6.32-3-xxx kernel uses the traditional driver for
> traditional IDE hard disks, also known as ATA (AT attachment) or PATA
> (parallel AT attachment). This driver uses device names of the form
> /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, etc. The 2.6.32-5-xxx kernel uses a newer driver
> for these disks which uses SCSI emulation. The newer driver uses SCSI
> (Small Computer System Interface) device names even for PATA disk
> drives. Thus, the device names are called /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, etc.
> It's a different naming convention for the same drives.
Yes, I now remember that message coming through when I installed the
latest kernel.
> > I used to mount /dev/hdb1 and /dev/hdb5 but those don't exist
> > anymore.
>
> Right. As I explained above. But it you were to boot your old
> kernel, the 2.6.32-3 kernel, you would see the old device names
> re-appear again. The reason that linux-base tries to migrate system
> files such as /etc/fstab to UUID-based mounting is so that the mount
> will succeed regardless of which kernel you boot.
Haven't tried that yet, but I will.
> > Using tune2fs I can access them as /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc5. The
> > UUIDs match what got written to /etc/fstab. I was able to assign
> > labels to them using tune2fs but they still refuse to mount.
>
> Not by their old names, no. The devices have different names under
> the new kernel.
>
> > How can I access those partitions?
>
> You already are accessing them, but with different names now. You
> haven't lost any data.
The original line in /etc/fstab was:
/dev/hdb1 /hd0 ext3 defaults 0 0
That line got commented out and this line was added:
UUID=03c23684-dea8-458d-b04b-0ae8a056cb0d /hd0 ext3
defaults 0 0
Using tune2fs I added the label 'hdb1' and added this line to /etc/fstab:
LABEL=hdb1 /hd0 ext3 defaults 0 0
'mount /hd0' DOES NOT WORK! It gives this error message:
mount: special device LABEL=hdb1 does not exist
'tune2fs -l /dev/sdc1' gives:
----------------------------------------
tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem volume name: hdb1
Last mounted on: <not available>
Filesystem UUID: 03c23684-dea8-458d-b04b-0ae8a056cb0d
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: has_journal filetype sparse_super large_file
Filesystem flags: signed_directory_hash
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: clean
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 2443200
Block count: 4883752
Reserved block count: 244187
Free blocks: 627830
Free inodes: 2399380
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 16288
Inode blocks per group: 509
Last mount time: Mon Jul 19 11:40:39 2010
Last write time: Thu Sep 9 21:38:18 2010
Mount count: 90
Maximum mount count: 38
Last checked: Thu Jun 30 03:47:39 2005
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Tue Dec 27 02:47:39 2005
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 128
Journal inode: 8
Journal backup: inode blocks
----------------------------------------
The label (volume name) is there. The UUID matches. I get the same
(non-)results whether I try mounting with the label or the UUID.
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