I recently allocated the extra 4GB that linode recently handed (Thanks guys!) out to my Gentoo install. Then I edited fstab and rebooted. I can't see the mount, can anyone help me out?

Here is my fstab:

/dev/xvda / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/xvdb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/xvdc /backup ext3 noatime 0 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom audo noauto,ro 0 0

The one I added was /backup and xvdc corresponds to the new ext3 disk I setup in the "Linode Configuration Profile".

Two ideas:

1. After creating the disk image, did you assign it to your linode in the config profile editor before rebooting?

2. Did you format the partition? There is an option to have it pre-formatted upon creation...

I tried it again from the start with no luck. I selected ext3 for the format and assigned it to the linode. then i edited the fstab and rebooted.

Are you getting /dev/xvdc ?

$ ls -l /dev/xvd?

Did you create the mount point?

# mkdir /backup

Thanks! that pointed me to the problem. I created the mount point as /backups instead of /backup. BTW, I did not see the mount failure in dmesg or var/log/message. Where do mount failures get logged?