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New hard drive
24-06-2011 9:44 PM
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Re: New hard drive
24-06-2011 9:46 PM
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Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 10:03 AM
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As to formatting it - just install it then run gparted from the working system and wipe the new drive - I assume you want to wipe it or just the boot sector?
Then you need to install it in to fstab so it will be added where you want it,, under your home folder - under mnt etc.
Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 1:21 PM
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Quote Dependant on you bios it may boot from the s/pata first. You may have to change the boot order to get it to boot from your original drive.
This was the trouble I had last time I couldn't get it too boot from the right drive.
Quote As to formatting it - just install it then run gparted from the working system and wipe the new drive - I assume you want to wipe it or just the boot sector?
The drive is new, I had it on an old system at work which went kaput, Yes I want to totally wipe it and throw it in my system at home to store my movies on and free up a bit of space on my system drive. Will it be ok just booting up the machine to run gparted when I have two drives with a boot record on?
Quote Then you need to install it in to fstab so it will be added where you want it,, under your home folder - under mnt etc
I'll try and understand that bit, little surfing need me thinks.
Quote You don't (can't) set master/slave on SATA.
Ok thanks what about the PATA?
Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 1:43 PM
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Your PATA wants to be Master with any cd/dvd drive as slave or on the second controller (if any)
Is the NEW drive SATA or PATA?
As to 2 boot records, they don't care, if you have several OS's you can have several boot partitions.
Does your BIOS allow you to specify the HDD to boot from or is it just HDD/CD etc? If the later then you NEED to install grub on to the boot drive and get it to start the "correct" drive. I had to do this a few years ago when I introduced a SATA drive into a PATA system.
Lets work on getting the system booted first.
Then we can make the new drive appear as /home/AWB/Movies or whatever.
Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 2:07 PM
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Quote Is the NEW drive SATA or PATA?
PATA that's the one with the big cable right, that's the new drive going in. It already has sata (small red cable) installed.
Quote Does your BIOS allow you to specify the HDD to boot from or is it just HDD/CD etc?
I can pick which to boot from in the bios, if I remember right last time when I installed the drive the system wouldn't boot up and I couldnt find both drives at the same time in bios. Only the pata showed up until it was disconnected then the other would appear.
Quote Lets work on getting the system booted first.
Roger that! I'm at work taking the drive out at the moment and the going to get a bios battery, I'll swap that out while the sides off. Will be home shortly.
Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 2:28 PM
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Then when we get the system booted we can re-partition the new drive (this deletes the boot sector as well) and label it as "Movies" or something (I use Avi)
Then open your fstab (gksudo gedit /etc/fstab) and add the following at the end:-
LABEL="Avi" /home/AWB/Avi ext4 relatime,noatime,data=writeback,commit=60,nobarrier 0 2
Change the label and the mount point to suit your system. If you didn't use ext4 to format it change that as well.
Then you should create the folder (if it doesn't exits) and issue a
sudo mount LABEL="Avi"
in a terminal and it should mount it (again change the label to suit)
Then after a reboot it will automount it to the folder for you.
Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 3:17 PM
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Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 3:22 PM
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If that is the case then you will need to boot from a live cd and wipe the drive then look at (re-)installing grub to boot to the second drive.
The bios doesn't offer booting from scsi does it that sometimes = sata.
Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 3:23 PM
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Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 3:29 PM
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Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 3:43 PM
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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s 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 nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=b1f0fbd9-1516-4c2f-b471-39f02f88efe0 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
Where do I add the other code into the terminal as well or the note pad?
Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 3:54 PM
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1. make a folder called Media Server in your home folder (using nautilus or on the terminal, if on the terminal you will need to use quotes or a \ as below)
2. run gparted and delete/make a single partition and give it a label of "Media" with a format of ext4
3. at the end of the fstab enter the line
LABEL="Media" /home/AWB/Media\ Server ext4 relatime,noatime,data=writeback,commit=60,nobarrier 0 2
and save it ^ NOTE the \ between the Media and Server
4. on the terminal enter mount LABEL="Media", and it should mount it to your Media Server folder
Then make your individual folders and point the ps3 media server at them.
Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 4:02 PM
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gksudo gedit /etc/fstab (into the terminal?)
LABEL="Media" /home/AWB/Media\ Server ext4 relatime,noatime,data=writeback,commit=60,nobarrier 0 2 (I guess I put neil instead of awb right also in terminal or note file?
I also cant get rid of the 2 swap file that's still on there!
Re: New hard drive
25-06-2011 4:08 PM
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you have 2 swap files, in gparted right click on them and choose unmount then make a NEW PARTITION TABLE then a new partition of the whole drive.
If they will not unmount then we need to investigate,
Also make sure you label the new partition or we can't use LABEL and have to use uuid which is a pita.
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