File Server and Raid

[Gabriel Dragffy]

Hi, to get ubuntu to use a seperate /home partition you will need to
ensure that fstab contains an appropriate entry for it. You may get away
without performing a reboot after the edit by the command "sudo mount
-a".

Fdisk will show you what's happening on you drives but **I don't think**
it will show you anything useful if you point at /dev/md0 since this is
an array, a bunch of discs and not a single disc. I could be wrong of
course, hence I used the words "I think" :)

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 06:57 +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
> Hi Russell
> 
> On 15/11/06, ruscook <ruscook_oz at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>         On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 18:23 +0000, Richard Brown wrote:
>         Yes don't use /home from the first  disk, edit /etc/fstab to
>         ensure that whatever partition is you want for /home is
>         mounted.
>         Please post the results of your fdisk -l command
>         
>         
>         
>         Hopefully these will help.
>         
> Thank you so much - yes they do help. Here is the output from fdisk
> -l:
> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders 
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1        1216     9767488+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            1217        1338      979965   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris 
> /dev/sda3            1339       30401   233448547+  fd  Linux RAID
> autodetect
> 
> Disk /dev/sdb: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes 
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sdb1               1        1216     9767488+  83  Linux
> /dev/sdb2            1217        1338      979965   82  Linux swap /
> Solaris
> /dev/sdb3            1339       30401   233448547+  fd  Linux RAID
> autodetect 
> 
> Disk /dev/md0: 239.0 GB, 239051210752 bytes
> 2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 58362112 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 8 * 512 = 4096 bytes
> 
> Disk /dev/md0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> I can see that /dev/sda3 is the /home partition and that it is running
> as raid. How do I mount this as /home please and then get it to stay
> mounted as /home when I boot up? I'll then need to work out how to add
> shares!
> 
> Many thanks once again for your invaluable help.
> -- 
> Rich
> http://www.cregy.co.uk
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