Ivan Arteaga wrote:

John R Pierce wrote:

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Ivan Arteaga wrote:

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Hello,

I have a server running CentOS 4.7 and I want to add a new USB-HD for backup some data. I made the file system as ext3 with the command: / mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1/

After that I did add a new Volume Group and Logical Volume (/VolGrup01-LogVol01) /on that file system and mounted it as /backup. It worked fine but when I did reboot the server It wont mount /backup and I got the following error even after the system boots and I try to mount it manually:

/mount: special device /dev/VolGrup01/LogVol01 does not exist/

I will appreciate any comment or suggestion about the best way to get through this.

I would *NOT* use LVM on a removable external drive.

if you did a mkfs /dev/sdb1, you should

# mount /dev/sdb1 /backup

and skip LVM entirely.

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John,

I did remove the LVM and mounted the file system i had in /dev/sdb1 as /backup, It works now...

[root@server]# mount /dev/sdb1 /backup [root@mail ~]# df -kh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 459G 105M 436G 1% /backup [root@server]#

I cant restart the server now but I will have a maintenance window tomorrow so I will check after the reboot how it goes... I added it to /etc/fstab anyway:

//dev/sdb1 /backup ext3 suid,dev,exec 0 0/

Thanks in advance for your suggestion.

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It worked fine. Thanks again!