Re: mount and format disk (was:2 Problems in Suse 10!)

__/ [ Christian Barmala ] on Saturday 25 February 2006 20:17 \__

Irwin J. Finster wrote:
First, my IDE HD can no longer be mounted (worked in 9.3), why I am not
sure. Linux is on my RAID Disk and works fine. the error message I get
is
mount: can't find /dev/hda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
and this is true, there is no entry for it in both files. But what
should I enter. There is still an NTFS files system on this disk,

/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0


It used to be

/dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs rw,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=iso8859-1 0 0

^^ ^^^^^^^^^

over here (before ReiserFS replacement). Just to add to a pool pf
possibilities, in case the first option coughs out an error or warning.


and this is true, there is no entry for it in both files. But what
should I enter. There is still an NTFS files system on this disk, I only
want to mount it to get some data on it across, and then reformat
it with Reiser (BTW how do I do this).

umount /dev/hda1
remove the entry, mentioned above from the fstab file
YaST2 disk
this should guide you via the gui and even add the required entry to
/etc/fstab.

I managed to do this by going directly to YaST disk. No need to unmount any
drives either.

http://www.schestowitz.com/temp/filesystem3.jpg


__/ [ Irwin J. Finster ] on Saturday 25 February 2006 19:04 \__

Just upgraded from 9.3 and ran into two problems.

[...]

Also, my second problem. I have a multi monitor setup with 2 graphics
cards and 2 monitors. All runs fine, except, my secondary monitor won't
automatically shut off after the specified time, even though the primary
does fine.

Thanks for any help

Irwin


Under YaSY/Control Center, see the Power Management section. I don't believe
it has the notion of different display units (let alone cards) and handling
them separately, so I suggest you try hibernation, stand-by, HDD shutdown
and other energy saving schemes to see if luck comes your way.

Best wishes,

Roy
.

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