Hi,
Hopefully someone can provide guidance (enlightenment?) to this relatively
newbie Debian admin.
I recently built a Debian 4.0 stable system on an HP ProLiant DL380 G3 hardware
platform (x86 32 bit).
The Server has five 72GB hot swap SCSI disks and I configured two arrays (using
the HP ACU) - one logical disk 72GB RAID1 to house the O/S and the remaining
200GB array as a second logical disk which I intend to use as storage for FTP
upload/download.
VSFTPD is installed and running, I have generated and installed a Certificate,
everything there is fine.
What I need help with is in using the available space on the second logical
disk.
I suspect I fudged the partitioning - I THOUGHT I partitioned the 200GB drive
as EXT3 and the space was available for use, but here is what is happening. I
created a directory under /home named "secureftp." I also added this entry to
my FSTAB, contents of which look like this:
SERVERNAME:/# cat /etc/fstab# /etc/fstab: static file system information.##
<file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>proc
/proc proc defaults 0 0/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 /
ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 none
swap sw 0 0/dev/hda /media/cdrom0
udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto
rw,user,noauto 0 0/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /securedata ext3 defaults
0 0
Now, when I try to mount this directory, wishing to place it on the 200GB
storage array (sorry if I am not wording this correctly, my background is in
Windows and have only been working with Linux for a couple years) I run the
command "mount -t ext3 /dev/cciss/c0d1p1 /securedata" the system responds with
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option..." Hopefully you will know what I mean
without me having to type out the rest of the message. In the message I am
directed to have a look at syslog so I issue the command as follows:
SERVERNAME:/# dmesg | tail heads= 255, sectors= 32, cylinders= 52299
cciss/c0d1: p1 < > blocks= 426759840 block_size= 512 heads= 255,
sectors= 32, cylinders= 52299
cciss/c0d1: p1 < >attempt to access beyond end of devicecciss/c0d1p1: rw=0,
want=4, limit=2EXT3-fs: unable to read superblock
I thought the "superblock" was the 5% of space reserved by the system so I can
perform root maintenance should the disk become full, the data corrupt, etc.
Anyway, would someone please (and be kind...) tell me what I am doing wrong,
how I can fix it, and provide the steps I need to follow in order to
successfully mount the 200GB storage partition?
Thanks for much!!!
Dov
