We have linux box running fedora. It has a small laptop hard drive running the OS and a 3ware RAID controller running 3 SATA drives RAID 5.
When we boot the computer and login, I run “fdisk –l” and it lists all the hda partitions. No /dev/sda. If I run “modprobe 3w-9xxx” and then run “fdisk –l” again, it shows all the hda1 through hda7 partitions with a single /dev/sda Obviously the /dev/sda isn’t mounted to a folder, nor is it formatted.
I checked the /etc/fstab file and it has the line: /dev/vbackup/lvbackup /backups xfs defaults 1 2
I’m guessing this means the /backups folder is mounted to this device /dev/vbackup /lvbackup
I know you need to format the drive using “mkfs.xfs –f /dev/sda” but I forget what to do is get /dev/sda to be /dev/vbackup/lvbackup to be mounted to /backups
Thanks in advance
here is the output for the /var/log/messages file
Aug 7 kernel: 3ware 9000 Storage Controller device driver for Linux v2.26.05.003-2.6.21.
Aug 7 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:04:0c.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
Aug 7 kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi1: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at -xfc5ffc00, IRQ: 18
Aug 7 kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi1: Firmware FE9X 2.08.00.006, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.052, Ports: 8.
Aug 7 kernel: scsi 1:0:0:0: Direct-Access AMCC 9500S-8 DISK 2.08 PQ: 0 ANSI: 3
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 1953083392 512-byte hardwaresectors (999979 MB)
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] 1953083392 512-byte hardware sectors (999979 MB)
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: disabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: sda : unknown partition table
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
Aug 7 kernel: sd 1:0:0:0: sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
Aug 7 scsi.agent[3511]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1e.0/0000:03:02.0/0000:04:0c.0/host1/target1:0:0/1:0:0:0
Aug 7 kernel: XFS mounting filesystem sda
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