SDB1 Disk not mounted in Linux Mint 7

[bassmanuk]

I have just installed Mint 7, and although SDB is formatted in Ext3, it is not mounting. I have reinstalled the distro 3 times, on SDA (I have 2 internal drives), and I can't for the life of me work out how to mount SDB, and to have it mount on boot up.

I like the look of Mint, and want to use it as a home server, but I can't get past this basic block

Any help would be appreciated

[altair4]

Post the output of the following three commands and maybe someone can help:

Open Terminal
Type sudo blkid -c /dev/null
Type mount
Type cat /etc/fstab

[bassmanuk]

first command gives this:

/dev/sda1: UUID="1b888d95-b251-47a9-9e1c-cfe58a31c7b3" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda5: UUID="5821b951-1f47-4f96-9255-fdc06f8214b7" TYPE="swap"
/dev/sdb1: LABEL="Backup" UUID="c9ebecae-2820-4124-a487-f4aa783a6530" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

second command gives this:

/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/server/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=server)


third command gives this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=1b888d95-b251-47a9-9e1c-cfe58a31c7b3 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=5821b951-1f47-4f96-9255-fdc06f8214b7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


hopefully this can provide enough information to give me and answer

[altair4]

The source for best info on mounting at boot is from Fred:
Auto Mounting Partitions on Boot: viewtopic.php?f=42&t=22093

Let's take an example from his HowTo:

To auto mount an ext3 data partition in your /home open a terminal and type:
mkdir /home/fred/Data
sudo su
echo "/dev/sdxx /home/fred/Data ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2" >> /etc/fstab

Based on the info you provided this would be something like this:

mkdir /home/fred/Backup
sudo su
echo "/dev/sdb1 /home/fred/Backup ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2" >> /etc/fstab
Change "fred" above to your real username.
mount -a