Oops, forgot to include some data: [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# [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/sdb3 on /mnt/sdb3 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/sda2 on /mnt/sda2 type ext3 (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/sda The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 9729. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1912 15358108+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1913 1925 104422+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1926 9729 62685630 8e Linux LVM Command (m for help): q [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/sdb The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 59582. There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024, and could in certain setups cause problems with: 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., old versions of LILO) 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK) Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/sdb: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 59582 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 203 102280+ 83 Linux /dev/sdb2 204 2109 960624 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb3 2110 59579 28964880 83 Linux Command (m for help): q [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# ll /mnt/sdb3/ total 34128 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-29 00:37 bin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-26 02:38 boot drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2007-07-26 02:54 dev drwxr-xr-x 68 1000 users 4096 2007-11-17 00:10 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2007-07-26 07:59 home drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-10-17 01:02 lib drwx------ 2 root root 16384 2007-07-26 02:37 lost+found -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 133809 2007-07-26 02:58 metadata.tar.bz2 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2007-10-07 00:17 mnt drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2007-09-07 23:38 opt -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34686418 2007-07-26 02:55 portage-2007.0.tar.bz2 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-26 02:45 proc drwx------ 23 root root 4096 2007-11-15 22:39 root drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-10-07 00:37 sbin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2007-07-26 02:45 sys drwxrwxrwt 23 root root 4096 2007-11-17 00:10 tmp drwxr-xr-x 15 1000 users 4096 2007-02-07 05:04 usr drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 2007-07-29 00:34 var [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# ll /mnt/sdb3/boot/ total 0 [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 7 (Moonshine) [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# date Sat Nov 17 00:57:38 PST 2007 [root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# thanks, Thufir
