Terry Kemp wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 20:15 -0400, Debbie Deutsch wrote:
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>> In any case, here is what my /etc/fstab file says. (Note that I have
>> adjusted the white spaces to help with readability.)
>>
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
>> LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
>> devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
>> tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol02 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
>> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol03 /shared ext3 defaults 1 2
>> sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
>> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
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>
> OK our problems are a bit different (but probably attributed to the same
> kernel issue).
> Is this software Raid0?
> Can you post the results of fdisk -l
The output of fdisk -l is as follows:
Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 77826 625032922+ 8e Linux LVM
Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
After providing the above results, fdisk complains that "Disk /dev/sdb
doesn't contain a valid partition table". That's not surprising.
/dev/sda and /dev/sdb are the two hard drives that together comprise my
system's RAID array. It's RAID 0. Although I have never before delved
into how partition information is written to hard drives in a RAID 0
array, it seems logical that it would go on the first drive and not be
duplicated on the other(s).
Just for fun, I also ran fdisk -l on the the RAID device itself
(/dev/mapper/nvidia_ehbjhcdb). Here is its output. This time there was
no error message.
Disk /dev/mapper/nvidia_ehbjhcdb: 640.1 GB, 640145864704 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77826 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ehbjhcdb1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/mapper/nvidia_ehbjhcdb2 14 77826 625032922+ 8e Linux LVM
This looks fine to me, but as I have mentioned before, I am not an
expert when it comes to how Linux structures and stores partition
information.
Once again, thanks for your help. It's very much appreciated.
Debbie
