Fedora 8 partition question

[booman]

thanks Gizmo. I'll try those commands right now. I've been playing with "mount" and have noticed that it tells me info about the partitions.
I think my secornd drive is /dev/sdb but there is 2 partitions from an earlier Fedora installation. So I don't know which partition is which...
sdb1 or sdb2
if "mount" will tell me the size of each paritition like lvscan does then I'll know which one because there is a huge 130 Gig paritition and a 20 Gig or so paritition.

[booman]

I'm getting

wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/mapper/back--up-LogVol01
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

here are some of my errors in dmesg:

EXT3 error: group descriptors corrupted!
EXT3 fs error (device dm-2): ext3_check descriptors: Inode bitmap for group 0 not in group (block 8651778) !
VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev dm-3.

I think I've messed something up in my endeavors trying to troubleshoot.
I don't mind starting over with a whole re-install but it would be nice to use the other hard-drive.
Did I mention I deleted the /boot partition on this drive when I had it connected to windows?
it could be that or it really is corrupt.
If its too much of a hassle to revive this drive then can I just format it?

[booman]

I've also attached some drive info from rvscan
Fedora definitely sees the hard-drive as /dev/sdb1
but I get confused with /dev/sdb1 & /dev/back-up/LogVol00
I think its the same drive but how do I know
there are also some /dev/dm-0 drives, but I don't know what they are for... even though they have the same amount of space

[Gizmo]

Ah, your drives are being handled by LVM. Crap. I've not got a lot of experience with LVM. Frankly, I don't understand why Fedora defaults to using LVM, since it is WAY overkill for a user's machine, and introduces extra complications when things go wrong.

[booman]

oh, I see, so maybe I should start reserching LVM?
I read the "help" file in LVM and tried some of the options like renaming, so forth....
But so far no success.
I noticed that when I "mount -t lvm /dev/back-up/LogVol00" it says lvm isn't a filesystem and "swap" isn't a file system either.

[ccperf721p]

Let me do a little research and see if there is anything Fedora specific that I missed. I use LVM2 on a couple of rigs with Gentoo and it is simple to manage so I know it's just something I missed along the way.

[booman]

Don't worry about it. I ended up starting from scratch and re-installed Fedora 8.
I partitioned:

/ 30gigs
swap 2gigs
/home 120Gigs
/backup 150gigs

[booman]

Everything is formatted and re-installed. Fedora 8 server is back up again. I'll tell ya what, I've learned alot about formatting, /dev, fstab, ext3, LVM, lvscan, etc. Too bad I'll have to find some of those old games I downloaded, but otherwise not too much of a loss.

Now I have my backup drive installed so I can use Fwbackups to save my data. I plan to backup every day so I don't loose anything.

Thanks for your help EVERYONE! You guys do a good job when this isn't even a Linux forum!

By the way, I'm currently investigating wether the RAM is bad or if the PC-DL Deluxe motherboard has RAM issuses. I've seen plenty of threads about that motherboard having a "cow" over RAM...

[Daniel ~]

Glad you made it happen! ":O}

[booman]

Honestly, I'm happier with this configuration because now I've got everything formatted ext3 and I have /home on a separate partition & my /backup on a separate drive. I've installed fwbackups and did a test backup, it worked perfectly!
I'm glad I have a backup now on my server.
I've RMAed the 2 sticks of RAM and we'll see if that was the problem. If its the Asus PC-DL Deluxe, then I'll stick with 1 Gig for now.

[dsio]

Incidentally, Fedora 10 is out in 3 weeks =D

[Daniel ~]

Any word if it will update 8 if you wisely skipped 9?

( I've NEVER gotten 9 to even load on one of my boxes ( Tried three different setups over the months...?)

[Gizmo]

Originally Posted by dsio

Incidentally, Fedora 10 is out in 3 weeks =D

Has it been 6 months already?

[booman]

As I've been reading through forums about formatting/partitioning issue, a majority of them is about people trying to update their Fedora and having problems. So they have to reformat and re-install...
So, for now, I've decided to stick with Fedora 8 for now because it works perfectly.
Once I feel comfortable with my backups I'll try a new version, maybe...
Until there is some new feature that I GOTTA have (Direct X support in Wine) then I'll think about updating.

[dsio]

Throw the DVD in and give it a whirl when it comes out (some weeks yet). Backup before you upgrade as always, and we'll try to give you a hand if you have trouble.

[booman]

Apparently it true
Wine & Direct X10
thanks dsio

[booman]

I received the new RAM from Corsair. Unfortunately its not the Dual RAM I sent them. But its been working fine for two days now. I'm back in Business, well I was always back in business but now I'm using 2Gigs or PC 2700....

[Daniel ~]

I'm just amazed how fast your picking this up...like all green with envy! ":O}