Hi everyone!

I recently bought a linode, i want to make partitions for /home /var and /tmp, i create disk image for this 3 partition, then deploy Centos, then edit profile and "link" this partitions to the devices (xvdc, xvdd, etc...), then boot and edit fstab, then i mount manually and everything ok except that it seems the nework its down, and when rebooting i cant ssh because it seems the network is down, can you help me guys? its like when i create partitions and add them to fstab, then reboot a i loose conectivity.

Thanks

Regards,

David

You might want to try logging in via LISH (Linode Shell) which gives you the Out-of-Band Console allowing you to see what went wrong during boot.

Hi everyone!


I tried to partition my linode without success, this is what i do:

1.- Create 3 disk images ext3 (/tmp, /var, /home)
2.- Deploy Centos 5.3 and this creates the root image disk and the swap image, so now i have 5 images.
3.- Go into the Centos 5.3 profiles and link the images with the devices (xvda --> root image, xvdb --> swap, xvdc --> /tmp image, xvdd --> /var image, xvde --> /home image)
4.- Boot and type df, this only shows xvda and xvdb as swap.
5.- Edit fstab (xvdc ext3 defaults 0 0, and every other partition with same settings)
6.- Reboot and now weird things happen, ssh service is down, yum doesn't work, etc...

I'm i missing some step? Can anybody help me on how to partition my linode or point some document on how to do it?

Thanks in advance

Regards,

David M.

Your list doesn't mention the step where you copy the contents of /var from xvda to xvdd. If you don't do this, when you reboot a whole bunch of things fail to start because they cannot write their pid files into the empty /var tree - they just blow up with a 'file or directory does not exist' message.

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/ Peter