A110 with two data partitions

[darkav]

Hi,

I have a new 3TB HDD, with two data partitions (/dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4).
To be exact, /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 and /dev/hda3 are partitions copied from another HDD used with that NMT. I take this 3TB disk and I added a new partition because A110 should not support a 2.8TB partition (that's correct?).

Anyway, when I start the NMT, I see two symbolic links: HARD_DISK_A3 and HARD_DISK_A4, but the NMT Apps does no start.
The reason is that /dev/hda1 is not mounted in /mnt.
Indeed, if a mount:
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
And run:
/etc/init_nmt start

...all it's ok...until the next restart! So, my questions are:
1) Why if I have two data partitions, /dev/hda1 is not mounted anymore
2) How can I mount /dev/hda1 to /mnt automatically? (I tried changing fstab, but it seems that the file is rewritten every reboot).

Any idea?

[sprogger]

Hi there

Not sure if this helps and I am sure there are people far more expert than me to answer this but...

I dont think 3TB drives work in the A110

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/i...-100/A-110

Cheers
Sprogger

[darkav]

(08-02-2011 06:32 AM)sprogger Wrote:  Hi there

Not sure if this helps and I am sure there are people far more expert than me to answer this but...

I dont think 3TB drives work in the A110

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/i...-100/A-110

Cheers
Sprogger

Ehm...it works perfectly
The problem is not with the 3TB HDD, but when I use two data partitions instead of one.
Indeed, If I mount with telnet (started from a USB stick):
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

...and I launch:
/etc/init_mnt start

...all It's ok! (until the next reboot )

[darkav]

From Here (for C-200) I see that if I use NTFS for the DataDrive, all the 3TB are supported. This is true also for A-110?

[darkav]

(08-02-2011 06:40 AM)darkav Wrote:  

(08-02-2011 06:32 AM)sprogger Wrote:  Hi there

Not sure if this helps and I am sure there are people far more expert than me to answer this but...

I dont think 3TB drives work in the A110

http://www.networkedmediatank.com/wiki/i...-100/A-110

Cheers
Sprogger

Ehm...it works perfectly
The problem is not with the 3TB HDD, but when I use two data partitions instead of one.
Indeed, If I mount with telnet (started from a USB stick):
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt

...and I launch:
/etc/init_mnt start

...all It's ok! (until the next reboot )

Ok, solved.

I had to reinstall NMT Apps to make the NMT ount the partitions correctly (don't know way). Anyway, now it works.
You can add the 3TB WD30EZRX to the supported disk list (even if with multiple partitions)

[genuk]

Quote:I had to reinstall NMT Apps to make the NMT ount the partitions correctly (don't know way). Anyway, now it works.
You can add the 3TB WD30EZRX to the supported disk list (even if with multiple partitions)

Hi Darkav,

Wich filesystem are you used to format your "/dev/hda4"?

I have the same "3TB WD30EZRX" with an HDX 1000 (with original firmware) and I run in some problems trying to use ext3 filesystem.

What I've done:
1.Connected the WD 3TB to HDX and do a fresh install.
2.After installation connected the HDD to a unix pc and run Gparted.
I had, as expected, 3 partitions: a)system partition, about 250 Mb, b)swappartion, about 500 Mb and c) data partition (just!!!) 800 Gb (ext3 formated).
3.With Gparted I resized the data partition (/dev/hda3) to 2 Tb and in the free space I've created a new partition (/dev/hda4) with ext3 filesystem.
4.After reconecting the HDD to HDX1000 i can see the 4th Partition but it's mounted as ext2 and previously copied files over unixpc are not readable anymore. Newly generated folders and files which I've copied over samba are fully functional.

here the "fdisk -l" from pc and from hdx1000:

Platte /dev/sdc: 3000.6 GByte, 3000592982016 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 364801 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00046553

Gerät boot. Anfang Ende Blöcke Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 32 257008+ 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdc2 33 95 506047+ 82 Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sdc3 96 243202 1952751408+ 83 Linux
Partition 3 does not start on physical sector boundary.
/dev/sdc4 243202 364802 976751616 83 Linux
*****************************************************
root@SMP8634 /root# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 801.5 GB, 801569726464 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 97451 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 32 257008+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 33 95 506047+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 96 243202 1952751408+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 243202 364802 976751616 83 Linux

here also the result of "mount" on hdx1000:

root@SMP8634 /root# mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nodiratime)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw)
tmpfs on /tmp type tmpfs (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt type ext3 (rw,data=ordered)
/dev/hda4 on /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK_A4 type ext2 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,nogrpid)
/dev/hda3 on /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK type ext3 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,data=ordered)

and the "df -h" un hdx1000, just the interesting part:

Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 50MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ide0: SMP863x/SMP865x Bus Mastering IDE controller
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: WDC WD30EZRX-00DC0B0, ATA DISK drive
hda: no 80 conductors cable, falling back to lower udma mode
hda: set to Ultra DMA mode 2
ide0: DMA enabled for ATA DISK hda
ide0 at 0x223c0-0x223c7,0x22398 on irq 26
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 1565565872 sectors (801569 MB), CHS=65535/255/63, UDMA(33)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
arusb - version 3.2.0.17
usbcore: registered new driver Otus
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1
em8xxx: no version for "llad_open" found: kernel tainted.
mumk_register_tasklet: (0) tasklet c800c000 status @ce366754
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
JBD: no valid journal superblock found
EXT3-fs: error loading journal.
EXT2-fs warning (device hda4): ext2_fill_super: mounting ext3 filesystem as ext2
EXT3-fs warning: mounting fs with errors, running e2fsck is recommended
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 506036k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:506036k


It looks like there are some Problems with the Journaling of ext3 on the 4th partition.

I'll try some more and maybe with the ntfs formating of the 4th partition .

[mr_bartowski]

I have the same model hdd in my A-110. This is how i partitioned the disk:

ext3 251 MB
linux-swap 495 MB
ext3 821 GB
NTFS 1914 GB

works fine