On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 03:07:32PM +0000, Arnoud de Jonge wrote:
> > Noticing that I only have 54 megs left on my / partition, I decided to
> > slot in a second hard drive on hdd and partition it up for /tmp /var
> > and a second swap. I created new mount points: /tmp2 /var2 and
> > formatted the hard drive using diskdrake. Problem: I accidentally left
> > one of the drive's old partitions mounted. diskdrake moaned, so I
> > unmounted and started again. Success. Then I restarted the machine
> > into single user mode to transfer things across and re-name the mount
> > points. Problem: hdd seems to have vanished. hdparm says:
> > # /sbin/hdparm /dev/hdd
> > /dev/hdd: Device not configured
> >
> > hdd is no longer visible in diskdrake, so I tried restarting off the
> > cdrom to see if the install procedure could see the hard drive and its
> > partitions. It can and I successfully deleted the old partitions. Then
> > I restarted into standard boot-up - still no luck. I'm stumped!
>
> Check if /dev/hdd still exists. If it is gone you'll have to recreate
> it. I have no access to a Linux box right now, so I can't tell you how
> right now.
Thanks for the quick response, but /dev/hdd (and /dev/hdd1-16) all
exist, and they have the same modification dates /mod settings as all
of the other /dev/hd? drives.
Still stumped!
tom
