Re: disk labels mismatch

2013-02-19 Thread pavicic
On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:57:28AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > > The problem was that grub "saw" that old installation on sdb > > although sdb was _not_ mounted. For example, I deleted grub.cfg and > > updated grub and all old installations from sdb would > > reapear. Equally so during booting. > >

Re: disk labels mismatch

2013-02-18 Thread pavicic
Hi! This problem has been solved but since some points might be of general interest even to Debian developers here is a report on the issue. To summarize: There are 3 disks on the machine sda, sdb, sdc. Debian Sid is installed on sda. sdb is _not_ mounted but contained an older installation

Re: disk labels mismatch

2013-01-15 Thread pavicic
Hi > Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 19:43:50 -0800 > Subject: Re: disk labels mismatch > I'd suggest that you gather usage information for your various > partitions/ directories, back up everything, wipe the disks, and start > over. I thought I came to a Linux forum where people solve problems not scra

disk labels mismatch

2013-01-14 Thread pavicic
Hi! I've added a new disk in a hurry and now I have several mismatches. Would anyone care to help me to sort them out. Below I'm giving fstab, fdisk -l, df -la (apparently "/" (root) is duplicated ??, etc.). I also enclose relevant sections from /var/log/system and grub. Each section starts with