Missing hard drive space

[jdow]

From: "Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
Sent: Monday, 2009/April/20 13:29


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> jdow schreef:
>> From: "Amedee Van Gasse (ubuntu)" <amedee-ubuntu at amedee.be>
>> Sent: Monday, 2009/April/20 09:55
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>>> MG schreef:
>>>> my fstab is now :
>>>>
>>>> # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
>>>> #
>>>> #  -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
>>>> #
>>>> # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
>>>>
>>>> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>>>> # Entry for /dev/sda1 :
>>>> UUID=d053ecd0-1482-4cfc-8b34-1d821a41f843 / ext3
>>>> relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
>>>> # Entry for /dev/sda5 :
>>>> UUID=8c6a2356-9c6b-4ef1-9b65-8e6edbf76120 none swap sw 0 0
>>>> /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
>>>>  none       /mnt/ramfs      tmpfs      defaults  0 0
>>>> # Entry for /dev/sdc1 :
>>>> /dev/sdc1    /media/External/usb1    vfat    rw,hard,intr    0       0
>>>> # Entry for /dev/sdb1 :
>>>>
>>>> /dev/sdb1    /media/External/usb2    ntfs-3g rw,hard,intr    0       0
>>>> # Entry for /dev/sdd1 :
>>>> /dev/sdd1    /media/External/usb3    ntfs-3g rw,hard,intr    0       0
>>>>
>>>> and still no difference no sign of drives in the folders
>>>> help!
>>>>
>>> What did you do after you saved the file?
>>> Did you create the directories /media/External/usb1 /media/External/usb2
>>> /media/External/usb3 ?
>>> Did you do a "sudo mount -a"?
>>> Did you reboot?
>>
>> That is a real good point. And if he replaces the final zeros with a 2 
>> then
>> the drive will be mounted at boot time which seemed to be what he wanted.
>
> ???
> Sorry, but as far as I know that is not the function of the two final
> zeros. The last zero tells Linux if it should check (fsck) the
> filesystem on startup, and I have never used the dump parameter. I never
> bothered to read man fstab on that subject.

I sit corrected. And you don't want to try to check ntfs. Sorry for
the confusion.

> I also know that automounting or not is done in the <options> column,
> the 4th column. For example, see the line that mounts /dev/scd0: there
> you can see the noauto option.

Right.

>> Then he can play with vol_id and replace the /dev/sdb1 type entries with
>> UUID=<stuff> type entries. Then if the drive cabling gets physically
>> rerouted he's still going to have no problems.
>
> I recommend using LABEL. It's easier to understand and remember than a
> cryptographical UUID.

Normally I'd recommend "LABEL"; but, were not talking normally here. He
is talking vfat and NTFS. Fiddling with label there might be difficult
to dangerous. "UUID" seems to work with his drives. They all have unique
values.

{^_^}