mount point wierdness [RESOLVED]

[tom_d]

8.04 / 3.5.10
K > System Settings > Advanced > Disk and File Systems > Admin mode

My main drive is primary master
1 Partition- 40g for XP (so I can try to figure out what SWMBO has done to her system every now and then...) no Mount Point, Device=/dev/sda1
2 Partition- - 260g for 8.04 etc, Mount Point = /, Device=/dev/sda2

My 'old' drive is secondary slave
1 Partition- 54.5g , Mount Point = /media/sdb1, Device=/dev/sdb1
2 Partition- 1.0kb, no Mount Point, Device=/dev/sdb2 (I have no idea what this is for)
3 Partition- 1.4g, no Mount Point, Device=/dev/sdb5 (I also have no idea what this is for- maybe swap from a previous install I've clawed my way up since Hoary ...)

I have a thumb drive plugged in at the moment
1 Partition- 4g , Mount Point = /media/sdc1, Device=/dev/sdc1

I have a dvd burner secondary master
Mount Point = /media/cdrom0, Device=/dev/scd1

I have a cd player primary slave
Mount Point = /media/floppy0, Device=/dev/fd0

This last one I'm assuming is wrong ...
I don't remember _ever_ using a floppy (as in never put one in the drive)
I tried changing Mount Point = /media/cdrom1 (with the intent to change to Device=/dev/cdrom1)
but it tells me cdrom1 is already being used

any ideas?

[Rog131]

Re: mount point wierdness

I would check with the commands:

sudo fdisk -l

and

sudo lshw

or

sudo lshw -html > Hardware.html

Output to the .html file.


man fdisk

FDISK(8) Linux Programmer’s Manual FDISK(8)

NAME
fdisk - Partition table manipulator for Linux

-l List the partition tables for the specified devices and then
exit. If no devices are given, those mentioned in /proc/parti‐
tions (if that exists) are used.

man lshw

LSHW(1) LSHW(1)

NAME
lshw - list hardware

SYNOPSIS
lshw [ -version ]

lshw [ -help ]

lshw [ -X ]

lshw [ -html | -short | -xml | -businfo ] [ -class class ... ] [ -dis‐
able test ... ] [ -enable test ... ] [ -quiet ]

DESCRIPTION
lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware
configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration,
firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache
configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 or IA-64 systems and
on some PowerPC machines (PowerMac G4 is known to work).

and one more:

lshal

man lshal:

lshal - list HAL devices

DESCRIPTION
lshal is a utility for displaying items in the HAL device database. For
more information about both the big picture and specific HAL proper‐
ties, refer to the HAL spec which can be found in /usr/share/doc/hal-
doc/spec/hal-spec.html depending on the distribution.

With KDE gui:
Package: kde-hal-device-manager, shows the hardware on your computer.
After installation K > System > Device Manager...


Links:
- HOWTO: Read BIOS Information

[tom_d]

Re: mount point wierdness

I would check with the commands:

sudo fdisk -l

and

sudo lshw

WOW!!!

fdisk -l confirms my harddrives are reporting correctly, and that I was correct that on my 'old' drive / secondary slave
<3 Partition- 1.4g, no Mount Point, Device=/dev/sdb5> is swap space. So I changed the Type in
K > System Settings > Advanced > Disk and File Systems > Admin mode


lshw, otoh, says my cd player and burner are misreporting
*-cdrom:0
product: CD-ROM 56X/AKH
logical name: /dev/cdrom
logical name: /dev/scd0
logical name: /dev/sr0

as I noted earlier:
Mount Point = /media/floppy0, Device=/dev/fd0

*-cdrom:1
description: DVD writer
logical name: /dev/cdrom1
logical name: /dev/dvd1
logical name: /dev/scd1

as I noted earlier:
Mount Point = /media/cdrom0, Device=/dev/scd1

so I'm going to try to change them, restart and see what happens
back in a bit

[tom_d]

Re: mount point wierdness

so I'm going to try to change them, restart and see what happens
back in a bit

well, no untoward noises or puffs of smoke, and everything seems to be working
so I guess it worked

I think what I'm going to do is nuke my 8.04 260g partition and start from scratch when 8.10 is released- see what happens to it with a clean slate

Thanks Rog131 !! :-)