[Goflex Home 3TB] Newbie help

[dannyp]

I'm just going to try the USB solution first just to make sudr the uboot is ok.

I presume that building the usb is exactly the same as the HDD version except it is on the usb?

[dannyp]

Ok..... Finally some good news.
I have created a usb boot and it has booted, it has an ip address and I can ssh into it.

What do I need to do now??

[JackDanielZ]

Hi dannyp,

How did you create your usb? When I tried it, it didn't find the uInitrd file.

Daniel

[moonman]

@dannyp See my last post on the last page on creating HMBR. Try different things and report back what works and what not
@Daniel boot up linux live cd, create an ext2/3 partition on USB drive, label it "rootfs", extract archlinuxarm tarball as root ("sudo su" then "tar xvzf <path to arch tar.gz> <path to the usb partition>") to it.

[WarheadsSE]

We actually suggest sudo su, then tar. (don't as why, it just doesn't always work as just sudo.)

[dannyp]

@Daniel, I did it exactly as moonman has indicated in the last post.

@moonman, I don't need the usb now. I can now ssh into a booted drive woohoo.

I installed gdisk then ran it. both partitions where type 0700 but the usb was 8300 so i used option 't' to change both partitions type code to 8300.

Then used option r for recovery and h for hybrid.

I put both partitions in the sequence, at 'Place EFI GPT partition first question I answered no. I used hex code 83 for both partitions giving the first the bootable flag and then answered no to the protect more patitions question. Then m for main menu and w to write.

Removed the usb and did reboot and the light flashed then went solid. ssh into the drive ok.

[moonman]

Thanks for the tip WarheadsSE, fixed my post

Great, it boots up. Now check if the partitions are recognized at their full size.Run "df -h"

[dannyp]

Doesn't look like it.....hmmmmmmm

login as: root
root@192.168.1.20's password:
Last login: Mon Mar 19 00:31:56 2012 from danny.home
[root@alarm ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 20G 2.0G 17G 11% /
/dev/root 20G 2.0G 17G 11% /
devtmpfs 61M 0 61M 0% /dev
run 61M 144K 61M 1% /run
shm 61M 0 61M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 61M 0 61M 0% /tmp
[root@alarm ~]#

can't see the 2.7TB partition but using gdisk it is there...

Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 5860533168 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 709390A1-C9CE-4C4D-AE66-B17583A50FD1
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 41945087 20.0 GiB 8300 2 41945088
2 41945088 5860533134 2.7 TiB 8300 Linux/Windows data

any ideas???

[tomcheng76]

Doesn't look like it.....hmmmmmmm

login as: root
root@192.168.1.20's password:
Last login: Mon Mar 19 00:31:56 2012 from danny.home
[root@alarm ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 20G 2.0G 17G 11% /
/dev/root 20G 2.0G 17G 11% /
devtmpfs 61M 0 61M 0% /dev
run 61M 144K 61M 1% /run
shm 61M 0 61M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 61M 0 61M 0% /tmp
[root@alarm ~]#

can't see the 2.7TB partition but using gdisk it is there...

Command (? for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 5860533168 sectors, 2.7 TiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 709390A1-C9CE-4C4D-AE66-B17583A50FD1
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 5860533134
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 2014 sectors (1007.0 KiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name
1 2048 41945087 20.0 GiB 8300 2 41945088
2 41945088 5860533134 2.7 TiB 8300 Linux/Windows data

any ideas???

congrats for ssh access
did you create the mount point in /etc/fstab ?
try
blkid /dev/sda2

[moonman]

Or if you want automounting to work
Label that 2.7 TB partition and install the udev-automount

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tune2fs -L <partition name> /dev/sda2
pacman -S udev-automount

reboot, then do df -h

after reboot you should be able to access the partition through /media/<partition name>