Ivan Arteaga wrote: > John R Pierce wrote: > >> Ivan Arteaga wrote: >> >> >>> 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. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > John, > > I did remove the LVM and mounted the file system i had in /dev/sdb1 as > /backup, It works now... > > [root at server]# mount /dev/sdb1 /backup > [root at mail ~]# df -kh > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sdb1 459G 105M 436G 1% /backup > [root at 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. > > --Ivan. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > It worked fine. Thanks again!