Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-07 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Thursday 05 April 2007 09:26, Noam Meltzer wrote: > On 4/5/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > QUESTION #3 - While GOOGLing for this, I found some mentions of EVMS. I > > seem > > to remember that on a previous version of Mandriva I had disk-access > > problems > > until I un-insta

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Noam Meltzer
On 4/5/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: QUESTION #1 - I don't know if it was neccessary to comment them all, but the link Noam pointed to mentioned dm-mirrror and dm-mod so I commented all lines including either of them. Was that the right thing to do? I don't think it is necessa

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
Noam's idea about dmsetup was the solution. All the /dev/sdc partitions now mount with no problem., but I would like to ask if what I've done may have other side-effects. Below, I have 4 questions and I hope someone can answer them: Here's a small section of /lib/modules/2.6.17-5mdv/modules.dep

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/04/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mount("/dev/sdc9", "/c9", "reiserfs", MS_MGC_VAL, "") = -1 EBUSY (Device or resource busy) mount(2) says about this error: EBUSY source is already mounted. Or, it cannot be remounted read-only, because it still holds fi

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 22:04, Noam Meltzer wrote: > I believe that the package on mandriva is called "dmsetup". you're right [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ rpm -qa|grep dmsetup dmsetup-1.02.09-1mdv2007.0 > Anyhow, even if that's wrong you should try the following commands: > > ls /dev/mapper/

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Noam Meltzer
I believe that the package on mandriva is called "dmsetup". Anyhow, even if that's wrong you should try the following commands: ls /dev/mapper/(existence of this directory is a good sign for disk-mapper existence) dmsetup deps (the output of this command should show you t

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 20:02, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Hi, > Maybe we're looking on the problem from the wrong direction. > I find some occurrences on google like this one: > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=494987 I looked at the link you sent, and if I understand correctl

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi, Maybe we're looking on the problem from the wrong direction. I find some occurrences on google like this one: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=494987 They are all referring to device-mapper in the end. Maybe it is the case in yours. For example, on my kubuntu, i use lv

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
What kind of extended partition do you use on the other hard drives? Could you show the complete fdisk -l of all disks/partitions? Chaim On Wednesday 04 April 2007 19:19, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:33, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > > Please also send the output of: mount -

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:27, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > Perhaps it is related to the extended partition type that you chose or how > you made that partition. > You are using: > Device Id System > /dev/sdc1 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) I doubt that that'ds the problem for the following reasons:

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Noam Meltzer
well, not your case in any meaning of the world. just took a shot at the dark. from the linux nfs faq: - B3. Why can't I mount more than 255 NFS file systems on my client? Why is it sometimes even less than 255? A. On Linux, each mounted file system is assigned a major num

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:33, Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > Please also send the output of: mount -v /c9 > and the tail of dmesg after a mount attempt. On the failed mount attempts, there is no info in dmesg or in /var/log/messages. On successful mounts (of /dev/sdb partitions), I get the follo

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 18:33, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Hi, > Is it possible that you are having too many mounts from the same type on > your system? > Can you please send the full output of 'cat /proc/mounts'? > I don't know what you mean by "too many mounts". Also, if that were the problem, umou

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Noam Meltzer
Hi, Is it possible that you are having too many mounts from the same type on your system? Can you please send the full output of 'cat /proc/mounts'? - Noam On 4/4/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 14:50, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 04/04/07, Shlomo Solomon <

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Please also send the output of: mount -v /c9 and the tail of dmesg after a mount attempt. Chaim On Wednesday 04 April 2007 09:35, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I'm having trouble adding a third SATA disk. > > I have 2 250 Gb SATA drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). > I added a 160 Gb drive and both fdisk a

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Perhaps it is related to the extended partition type that you chose or how you made that partition. You are using: Device Id System /dev/sdc1 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) I usually use: Id System 5 Extended Why put linux partitions in a Microsoft Extended partition (Type "f" W95 Ext'd (LBA))? Ma

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 14:50, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 04/04/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 04 April 2007 11:24, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > What does "df /c9" give you? > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ df /c8 /c9 /c10 > > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% M

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/04/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 04 April 2007 11:24, Amos Shapira wrote: > What does "df /c9" give you? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /]$ df /c8 /c9 /c10 FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 15G 301M 15G 3% / /dev/sda1

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 11:24, Amos Shapira wrote: > On 04/04/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su > > Password: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# mount /dev/sdc9 > > mount: /dev/sdc9 already mounted or /c9 busy > > What does "df /c9" give you? [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 11:38, Dan Armak wrote: > On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > > I tried all these before my previous post. The /dev/sdc partitions are > > definitely not mounted. > > Maybe something like dmraid or lvm is using sdc9 to build logical volumes? > Check with /

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Dan Armak
On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: > I tried all these before my previous post. The /dev/sdc partitions are > definitely not mounted. Maybe something like dmraid or lvm is using sdc9 to build logical volumes? Check with /proc/mdstat, pvs, etc. -- Dan Armak =

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/04/07, Shlomo Solomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# mount /dev/sdc9 mount: /dev/sdc9 already mounted or /c9 busy What does "df /c9" give you? --Amos = To unsubscri

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Oren Held
you mean /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab .. Ira Abramov wrote: Quoting Shlomo Solomon, from the post of Wed, 04 Apr: When I try to mount one of the /dev/sdc partitions from the control panel, I get: mounting partition /dev/sdc9 in directory /c9 failed. I have no idea

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On Wednesday 04 April 2007 10:31, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Shlomo Solomon, from the post of Wed, 04 Apr: > > When I try to mount one of the /dev/sdc partitions from the control > > panel, I get: mounting partition /dev/sdc9 in directory /c9 failed. > > I have no idea what that control pan

Re: adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-04 Thread Ira Abramov
Quoting Shlomo Solomon, from the post of Wed, 04 Apr: > > When I try to mount one of the /dev/sdc partitions from the control panel, I > get: mounting partition /dev/sdc9 in directory /c9 failed. I have no idea what that control panel actually does in the background, and if Mandriva is no

adding a third SATA drive

2007-04-03 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I'm having trouble adding a third SATA disk. I have 2 250 Gb SATA drives (/dev/sda and /dev/sdb). I added a 160 Gb drive and both fdisk and the Mandriva control panel correctly recognize it as /dev/sdc. The disk is OK (checked in a different computer). [EMAIL PROTECTED] solomon]# fdisk -l /dev/