[NTLUG:Discuss] USB External storage only

[Allen Meyers]

I posted to Ubuntu, still waiting as do not want to re-boot and get
another error 15 and not have access to a resource to get help.
Reinstall of 9.04 is easy, but almost 200 updates are a chore in time
line
Here is what forum suggested and my present state. Can I reboot safely
w/o error 15

I am giving you terminal results prior to creating a partition and I
will give it after as well. I am doing this because in between e-mails
it dawned on me that a partition had to me created so I did, but my
creativity and just being plain inept I added / to the partition and
at reboot I got the error 15. Not having access to forum it next
morning re-installed jaunty. Will create the partition as advised and
run code again, but will not reboot in hopes someone will advise me
should error 15 raise its ugly head again

allen at allen-desktop:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/allen/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=allen)
allen at allen-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -1
[sudo] password for allen:
fdisk: invalid option -- '1'

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK     Change partition table
       fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK  List partition table(s)
       fdisk -s PARTITION           Give partition size(s) in blocks
       fdisk -v                     Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
allen at allen-desktop:~$ ls -1 /dev/disk/by-uuid
7e817119-4c0e-47bc-bbb4-30d25877ce5d
ad4f76e4-7f59-4ac2-abea-4544155dd9b0
allen at allen-desktop:~$

This is after creating dev/sdb1/ partition with ext3

allen at allen-desktop:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw,mode=755)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/allen/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=allen)
allen at allen-desktop:~$ fdisk -1
fdisk: invalid option -- '1'

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK     Change partition table
       fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK  List partition table(s)
       fdisk -s PARTITION           Give partition size(s) in blocks
       fdisk -v                     Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
allen at allen-desktop:~$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-04-24 05:45
6dee4877-aec6-4148-bc3e-dee735bbc14f -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-04-23 22:59
7e817119-4c0e-47bc-bbb4-30d25877ce5d -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-04-23 22:59
ad4f76e4-7f59-4ac2-abea-4544155dd9b0 -> ../../sda1
allen at allen-desktop:~$

I repeat I will await a life line before I attempt reboot and thank you so much

Allen Meyers
texas.chef94 at gmail.com
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