Hi Guys,

First of all sorry, I am not a linux expert in any way.

Installed on a 1000 and my second drive has disappeared.

I now have a 7.1GB root on /dev/sda1 and no other storage devices.

Any help would be really appreciated.

Cheers

Andy

can you please give us a little more info? is it the 1000H (originally windows) or 1000 xandros, what are the drives supposed to be? How did you partition it to begin with?

one thing you can do to help is post the output of: fdisk -l

also if you can post you /etc/fstab file as well please.

Cheers
Solv

HI,

Thanks for the reply

It is the xandros version 8+32.

No partitioning done.

fdisk -l gives no output at all.

fstab is:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=be3bac61-8009-4291-954e-ed8852015beb / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=23292d54-e824-444d-8208-137da323134b none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sdc1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0


Cheers

Andy

I've got the same problem on a 901 Xandros. Installed on the 4gb drive, and the 16gb drive seems to be missing...

Hi,

sudo mkdir /mnt/disk2
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/disk2


This will get the disk back.

I am looking into getting home moved to this disk now, I will keep you updated.

Cheers

Andy

okay,

command should've been:

you are looking for /dev/sdb1

Currently your root '/' and swap partitions have been defined, but no others. The last line in your fstab with "/dev/sdc1" can be commented out because you won't be able to plug in a usb stick or sd card if you don't

Now I'm not an expert here, but because you didn't setup your /home dir as a seperate partition you may have issues moving it to the 32 gig drive now. I would recommend either reinstalling and manually partitioning your system to have the root and swap on /dev/sda and your /home on /dev/sdb1. If you don't want to do that, then one alternative is to just use the drive as your storage drive by mounting it in your home directory. So to manually test it you would do the following:


this will create an ext3 filesystem on that 32gig drive



this will create a dir to mount it under /home/storage


this will mount it.

You may then want to make a symlink under your own dir to get to it more quickly....so for instance



now if that all works fine you can save everything under you 'storage' folder and move all your music/video/documents folders into your storage folder.

If your happy with everything and want to make it permanent you can modify your fstab file with the following line - note: you MUST replace the UUID value with your own:


then



# /dev/sdb1
UUID=1d5b3536-73c5-4be7-9f93-fdd2653811f6 /home/storage ext3 relatime 0 2

(if the line is wrapped it shouldn't be...make sure it is on the same line like the rest of your fstab entries)

save, reboot and cross your fingers.

Cheers,
Solv

I have the 'file system" 4GB disk mounted as /
and no other physical disks are visible from the file browser.
however the larger disk appears to be at /home
- inside the other disk...
I'm still coming at this from a windows headspace so I could easily be missing something
swap is on the 16GB disk @2048MB but there is only 12GB total in my /home directory... odd.

Thank you. I am new to this forum, and this has helped me to "recover' my missing partition. Now I see the default "home" directory, "my documents" and other folders that had been created by the default Xandros distro.

I am using an Asus 1000 linux netbook with 40 gb capacity on the SDD [8 Gb + 32 Gb solid state drives]. I've now installed: first Easy Peasy, then eeebuntu, then back to Xandros, and once again eeebuntu. I could never figure out why I could not 'see' the second SDD drive after partitioning. It is now clear that the default installation of any of these distros is a 'safe' one, since it does not destroy the underlying (previous) data.

Perhaps you or some other member here could kindly recommend me a [color=#BF0040]manual partitioning scheme? [/color], Preferably one where eeebuntu would completely replace any previous installation, including deletion of previous user data]. Now I'd like to install the "standard" eeebuntu, since I prefer to have the default linux (gnome) desktop, rather than the netbook style. My attempts to get rid of the tabbed interface in Easy Peasy was unsuccessful.

respectfully...