Using 2TB Mybook with ubuntu and ML110 Proliant

I am hooking my 2TB Mybook to my ML110 running ubuntu server 10.04.1.
I read in the /etc/fstab that I would do this ...

wee@ubuntu:~$ sudo blkid -o full -s UUID
/dev/sda1: UUID="82d18b5c-0049-4ff6-9ab7-6a87cd5906db"
/dev/sda2: UUID="d97daca7-8046-49d7-93bd-24a6ee6ad33d"
/dev/sda3: UUID="bf565e06-0ddd-44b5-b58f-bc9771c55b21"
/dev/sda5: UUID="685a4f87-57c2-4aca-8bf4-54f112e19cbd"
/dev/sda6: UUID="21fa44e0-651c-4e22-8e88-240c2546e39b"
/dev/sda7: UUID="d7121d7e-0969-4b30-86e4-987d530702d9"
/dev/sda8: UUID="9c0f5186-c475-4d5f-a1ef-5a46fe5ddb9e"
/dev/sdb1: UUID="68066cd7-6446-42b7-9386-892a2d540691"

So this is my /etc/fstab ...

wee@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
#
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=82d18b5c-0049-4ff6-9ab7-6a87cd5906db / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /coop was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=9c0f5186-c475-4d5f-a1ef-5a46fe5ddb9e /coop ext4 defaults 0 2
# /home was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=685a4f87-57c2-4aca-8bf4-54f112e19cbd /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# /tmp was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=21fa44e0-651c-4e22-8e88-240c2546e39b /tmp ext4 defaults 0 2
# /usr was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=bf565e06-0ddd-44b5-b58f-bc9771c55b21 /usr ext4 defaults 0 2
# /var was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=d97daca7-8046-49d7-93bd-24a6ee6ad33d /var ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=d7121d7e-0969-4b30-86e4-987d530702d9 none swap sw 0 0
#
# Mybooks
# got UUID from executing sudo blkid -o full -s UUID
UUID=68066cd7-6446-42b7-9386-892a2d540691 /media/coop-disk-01 ext3 defaults 0 0


I did have to also do fdisk & mkfs ... no surprise there.

But no joy ...


wee@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /media/coop-disk-01
[sudo] password for wee:
mount: special device UUID=68066cd7-6446-42b7-9386-892a2d540691 does not exist
wee@ubuntu:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 7690408 345136 6954616 5% /
none 502920 228 502692 1% /dev
none 507352 32 507320 1% /dev/shm
none 507352 96 507256 1% /var/run
none 507352 0 507352 0% /var/lock
none 507352 0 507352 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda5 24382868 247916 22896376 2% /home
/dev/sda8 93687744 188104 88740500 1% /coop
/dev/sda6 1921036 36344 1787108 2% /tmp
/dev/sda2 14614904 978032 12894472 8% /var
/dev/sda3 9612516 3050876 6073348 34% /usr


Looks like that UUID number that is not suppose to change changed ???

So change line in fstab to ...


#
# Mybooks
# got UUID from executing sudo blkid -o full -s UUID
#UUID=68066cd7-6446-42b7-9386-892a2d540691 /media/coop-disk-01 ext3 defaults 0 0
UUID=d4b57836-3897-4264-a5d3-ba0d8d21ce8c /media/coop-disk-01 auto defaults 0 0


Now mount works ...


wee@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /media/coop-disk-01
wee@ubuntu:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 7690408 345136 6954616 5% /
none 502920 228 502692 1% /dev
none 507352 28 507324 1% /dev/shm
none 507352 96 507256 1% /var/run
none 507352 0 507352 0% /var/lock
none 507352 0 507352 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda5 24382868 248028 22896264 2% /home
/dev/sda8 93687744 188104 88740500 1% /coop
/dev/sda6 1921036 36352 1787100 2% /tmp
/dev/sda2 14614904 978032 12894472 8% /var
/dev/sda3 9612516 3050876 6073348 34% /usr
/dev/sdb1 1922858352 68956 1825113796 1% /media/coop-disk-01


I rebooted the system just for fun. The system didn't come back up! I had to connect a monitor and saw the system was trying to PXE boot!!! Oh crap !!! What did I do? Did I just format my boot disk? Well turns out that Phoniex Setup software on the HP ML110 defautls to using the USB device as the boot disk. I had to hit F10 and get into the setup and monkey with the boot order and everything was fine. Kinda of scary !!!