[mythtv-users] Can't log in!

Frank Merrill fmerrill1 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 03:53:55 UTC 2010


On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 9:49 PM, R. G. Newbury <newbury at mandamus.org> wrote:
>>
>> Ok so here is my partition table. sdb is a 320GB drive
>> sda is a 1TB drive which is connected in a rather unusual way. It sits
>> in an external enclosure with its own power supply but is actually
>> connected to the motherboard via a SATA to eSATA cable.
>>
>> jonno at jonno-mythbuntu:~$ df -Th
>> Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sdb1     ext3     12G  8.7G  1.8G  84% /
>> udev         tmpfs    989M  352K  989M   1% /dev
>> none         tmpfs    989M  4.0K  989M   1% /dev/shm
>> none         tmpfs    989M  340K  989M   1% /var/run
>> none         tmpfs    989M     0  989M   0% /var/lock
>> none         tmpfs    989M     0  989M   0% /lib/init/rw
>> /dev/sdb6      xfs    286G  199G   87G  70% /var/lib
>> /dev/sda1      xfs    932G  844G   88G  91% /var/lib/mythtv
>>
>
> It is odd that you have no sdb2, sdb3, sdb5 partitions...They must exist,
> but are not mounted. They must total at least 16-20G.
>

Actually that looks pretty normal.
You can only have 4 primary partitions, and the first on this physical
drive would be sdb1.  Since any others would be sdb2, sdb3, sdb4, the
fact that he only has one primary displayed by the df command makes
sense.
Actually, he does have an sdb2, it's an extended partition (which is
just a special primary partition) in which his logical partitions are
located.  Of course since sda1 - sda4 are reserved for primary
partitions, the next available partition number is sdb5.
In this case the swap partition (which would be sdb5) and the sdb6
partition are located in the sdb2 extended partition.  It's just not
shown by the df command.
What is shown by the df command is correct, as it doesn't really make
sense to show what is 'free' on sdb2 or sdb5.

A 'sudo fdisk -l' would show extended and swap partitions.

Frank


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