/bckupdrv how big?

[Tim Writer]

Chris Aitken <caitken-Bm8TULXj0r/3fQ9qLvQP4Q at public.gmane.org> writes:

> Chris Aitken wrote:
> 
> > Chris Aitken wrote:
> >
> >> Chris Aitken wrote:
> >>
> >>> wattst-dxuVLtCph9gsA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> >>>
> >>> <snip>
> >>>
> >>>> I forget if you have data that you need to access on this drive or not.
> 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> No, I'm setting it up as a backup drive but I can delete what's in therenow.
> 
> >>>
> >>>> If it's
> >>>> not important and you don't care about what is currently on that drive,
> >>>> then why
> 
> >>>> not format and start over?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> That's what I'm trying to do. I don't know how to call up disk druidtoher
> >>> than during an installation. I used to know my way around fdisk pretty
> >>> well but now when I choose delete a partition it asks me which partition
> >>> then I type in a number and it rejects it. I don't see any other disk partitioner in FC4.
> 
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I notice fstab that LABEL=/ is for /bvkupdrv. That didn't seem right so I
> >> changed it to /dev/hdb1 for /bckupdrv. I don't know if that will help --
> >> it hasn't seemed to.
> 
> >
> Oops. Is the command to get the fstab changes to be accepted? Or am I
> thinking of lilo...?

This change will not take affect until you reboot. But don't do that because
the above sounds like there may be some confusion between what is your backup
drive and what is /. Please e-mail your complete /etc/fstab (from before you
modified it), the output of "mount", and the output of "fdisk -l".

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