Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Robert Barish <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Good Day All:
I have installed a tape drive to perform backups.  When I go into /proc/ide, 
I find the tape drive labeled as hdb.   So I see the system is seeing the 
tape drive.

Now my question is, what steps do i need to take to run the following 
command:  mke2fs -cv /dev/hdb  Now when I run the command I get the message:

           mke2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
           dev/hdb is entire device, not just one partition!
           Proceed anyway? (y,n) y
           mke2fs: Device size reported to be zero.  Invalid partition        
           specified, or partition table wasn't reread after running fdisk, 		
           due to a modified partition being busy and in use.  You may need   
           to reboot to re-read your partition table.

And when I run: fdisk /dev/hdb I get the message:
            Unable to read /dev/hdb
So how can I get this to work?  I thought the process would be just like 
anding another hard drive! 

Also how do I configure the tape drive to be mounted everytime the system 
boots.  I am assuming I have to modify /etc/fstab with something like
      
	 /dev/hdb      /mnt/tape   ext2  defaults 1 1 
[This is after I create a mount point by cd /mnt, mkdir tape]

Is this correct?

THT
bob