Well, I need some help on this,

I have antiX 8.2 running on my laptop,

bobbylee@blb1:~$ inxi -F
System: Host blb1 Kernel 2.6.27-1-mepis-smp i686 (32 bit) Distro antiX-M8.2 Tȟašúŋke Witkó - Crazy Horse 24 July 2009
CPU: Single core Intel Pentium M (UP) cache 2048 KB flags (sse2) bmips 3589.83 clocked at 1800.00 MHz
Graphics: Card Intel 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device X.Org 1.4.2 Res: 1024x768@60.0hz
GLX Renderer Mesa GLX Indirect GLX Version 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 7.0.4) Direct Rendering No
Audio: Card Intel 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller driver Intel ICH at ports 1c00 18c0
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Version 1.0.17
Network: Card-1 Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver b44 v: 2.0
Card-2 Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection driver ipw2200 v: 1.2.2kmprq
Disks: HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (4.9% used) 1: /dev/hda FUJITSU MHT2080AT PL 80.0GB
Partition: ID:/ size: 24G used: 3.5G (16%) ID:swap-1 size: 4.34GB used: 0.00GB (0%)
Info: Processes 77 Uptime 1:02 Memory 157.9/993.2MB Client Shell inxi 1.1.13

I had 3 partitions,
/
swap
data
as hd1,hd2,hd3 respectively

I used gparted to resize the data partition and added a 4th partition named virtualharddisks, with the intent of using it to store my vbox installs (permanent hd as opposed to dynamic)

after repartitoning and rebooting, I have:

root@blb1:/# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd0f4738c

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 3133 25165791 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 3134 3661 4241160 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda3 3662 6003 18812115 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 6004 9729 29929095 83 Linux

fstab shows:

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
# Dynamic entries below
/dev/hda2 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 noauto,users,exec,relatime 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0

mtab shows:

/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,noatime 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
/dev/hda4 /media/virtualharddisks ext3 rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal 0 0

So my questions are why did the hda4 show up as /dev/hdc in fstab
and as /dev/hda4 in mtab, and how do I change fstab and mtab so that I can read and write to hda4 as a user, ie vbox?

any help appreciated

cheers,
oldhoghead

try (something like ) this:
/dev/hdc4 /media/virtualharddisks ext3 defalults, users 0 0
bout the parmeters/options (-> defaults) im not sure. I use defaults and aint got problems reading or writing from/to it.

that entry from fstab
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
is cdrom, therefor it differs from mtab (about which i dont know nothing __{{emoticon}}__ )

Yes, /dev/hdc have nothing to do with /dev/hda4, it seems. Create a line in fstab just like the /dev/hda3 one: supposing you have created /media/virtualharddisks
edit- if you'd like to mount them at boot time, change noauto to auto.


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Thanks for the input, did not resolve the issue though, tried several iterations, none would work, deleted the partition and redid it all, still would not mount as /hda4, only as /media????? I don't get it, but anyway changed permissions for that mount point and managed to get done what I needed.

cheers,
oldhoghead

Your fstab is very strange indeed. /swap is in the dynamic section?????

This is what I would do.
Check the actual mount point names and such but it should work.

eriefisher,

Thanks, good catch on the swap, but still can't get hda4 to mount from the static section, if I remove hda4 from the static section and reboot, If I then run rox filer, there is no entry in media, but when I run pcmanfm it shows up and I can mount the partition, then If I go to rox filer it now will show in /media under rox, and when I click on the partition it mounts. Something is screwy here. I am going to do a complete reinstall, will let you know how it goes when I am finished with the reinstall.

cheers,
oldhoghead

Install halevt and remove ivman

anticapitalista,

Thanks for the info, I did a complete reinstall and everything is good now, don't know what I had done, but simpler to reinstall than spend hours pulling my hair out.

cheers,
oldhoghead