How to mount data drive: LVM or Autofs?

louarnold · Post by **louarnold** » 2011/08/29 05:19:31

I'm not great with this topic, so the question may seem odd. I just installed V6 over V5.6. The install process found the data drive, but did not mount it (perhaps it couldn't). I read a great deal, but I'm confused if I need to have the drive automounted by lvm? or by placing something in the /etc/autofs file?

SKull · Post by **SKull** » 2011/08/29 08:21:29

Just add your data partition to your /etc/fstab

It should be looking similar to this:
[code]/dev/myvolumegroup1/myvolume1 /data ext3 defaults 0 1[/code]

louarnold · Post by **louarnold** » 2011/08/29 21:40:15

[quote]
SKull wrote:
Just add your data partition to your /etc/fstab

It should be looking similar to this:
[code]/dev/myvolumegroup1/myvolume1 /data ext3 defaults 0 1[/code][/quote]

uhm... Will it be "sdb for the whole drive? or sdb1?

mount /dev/sdb /X2050GB ext3 defaults 0 1

Is that going to cause an auto mount? (Hopefully)

AlanBartlett · Post by **AlanBartlett** » 2011/08/29 23:38:57

[quote]
uhm... Will it be "sdb for the whole drive? or sdb1?

mount /dev/sdb /X2050GB ext3 defaults 0 1

Is that going to cause an auto mount? (Hopefully)
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Please post the output produced by --

[code]
[b]fdisk -l[/b]
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We may then have sufficient information to assist you.

SKull · Post by **SKull** » 2011/08/30 12:41:56

its more likely to be sdb1

sdb is the whole device, and you can only mount partitions with filesystems , and not whole devices.
Just test it, doin' it wrong will result in an error, but you cannot break something with it.
(at least i hope so :-D )

to mount everything in your fstab without rebooting just type "mount -a"

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