I think part of the problem is that you have the 40GB drive slaved to
the 3GB drive...
That 40GB drive is a much faster drive than is your 3GB drive...the
controller from the 3GB drive may very well be holding it back.
You might want to try making the 40GB drive the secondary master, and
see if
> if you have errors on the drive, mounting the drive and writing to it
> can destroy no only what you add, but also whatever you already have there.
That's what I was afraid of... thanks.
> any errors on the other devices ? (i.e. the primary drive partitions?)
No, /dev/hda1 always mounts cle
On 02-Jan-01 Mandar Mitra wrote:
> I have a second hard-drive as primary slave. I had made the
> following entry in the /etc/fstab file.
>
> /dev/hdb2 /bext2 defaults1 2
>
> fsck often complains about /dev/hdb2 during booting ("not
> unmounted cleanly", or "file system has errors"). I
