slave drive mounting where?

Brandon Sandrowicz bsandrow-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 22 13:59:23 UTC 2007


On 11/21/07, Chris Aitken <chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Lennart Sorensen wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > No, when you ask df with a path, it tells you the info for whatever
> > device contains what you asked for.  So since you asked for df on
> > /dev/sdb1 you got the info on whatever holds the device node /dev/sdb1
> > which is generally the root filesystem.  You wanted to ask df about
> > wherever you mounted /dev/sdb1 to since it needs to be mounted to tell
> > how full it is (since it requires filesystem knowledge to see that info,
> > which df doesn't have so instead you must mount it first and then ask df
> > for the info on that mount point).
> >
> > So if you went:
> > mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
> > df /mnt
> >
> [root at p733 chris]# mount /dev/sdb1 /bckupdrv
> [root at p733 chris]# df /dev/sdb1
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1              9614116    168624   8957120   2% /bckupdrv
>
> Oh, now that's better...
>
> So, I guess the partition is there on the slave drive - it just needs a
> mount command so that it will mount /bckupdrv (?)
>
> So, I just manually add the line to /etc/fstab?
>
> I guess what I've been calling the "gui partitioner" did make the
> partition, but it did not mount /bckupdrv, but since /bckupdrv exists as
> a directory (under /) when I save .ogg's to it they are just saving to
> /dev/sda. Hence, my primary hard drive filling up.
>
> Chris
>
> <snip>
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When the 'gui partitioner' asked to mount it, it was probably just a
single time mount.  ( the same as just running the mount command )
Instead of setting up fstab to keep mounting it.
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