On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 17:24:53 +0100, Nigel Wade wrote: > sdb3 is [part of] a LVM, so you don't mount /dev/sdb3. You should mount > the logical volumes which have been created from the available disk > partitions. > > You have two LVM partitions, /dev/sda3 and /dev/sdb3. LVM will have been > used to create one or more physical volumes from these, which will then > have then been partitioned/allocated to logical volumes. Use pvdisplay > and lvdisplay to see what physical and logical volumes are in existence. > > Your mount table shows VolGroup00-LogVol00 as already mounted. This > means that there is a physical volume VolGroup00 and from that the > logical volume LogVol00 has been created, formatted and mounted as your > root partition. > > If this is a default partitioning scheme then swap might also have been > allocated out of VolGroup00, as LogVol01. I didn't understand what you meant, but now have: [root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /mnt/sda1 type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,allow_other,blksize=4096) /dev/sdb2 on /mnt/sdb2 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw) sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw) /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00 on /mnt/fc6 type ext3 (rw) [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fstab LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/VolGroup01/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 ntfs-3g users,rw 0 0 /dev/mapper/VolGroup01-LogVol00 /mnt/fc6/ ext3 users,rw 0 0 [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# date Tue Jun 26 21:35:36 PDT 2007 [root@localhost ~]# is this correct? thanks, Thufir
