Usb Mount And Swap - Please Help

[sawks]

I hope someone can help, im following this guide:

http://forums.hak5.org/index.php?showtopic=25882

To mount the sdcard on my 3g dongle (3g part is working)

When I used the default :

config global automount

option from_fstab 1

option anon_mount 1

config global autoswap

option from_fstab 1

option anon_swap 0

config mount

option target /usb

option device /dev/sda1

option fstype ext4

option options rw,sync

option enabled 0

option enabled_fsck 0

config swap

option device /dev/sda2

option enabled 0

I get :

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

rootfs 896 236 660 26% /

/dev/root 5376 5376 0 100% /rom

tmpfs 14764 136 14628 1% /tmp

tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev

/dev/mtdblock3 896 236 660 26% /overlay

overlayfs:/overlay 896 236 660 26% /

/dev/sda1 6896176 232068 6318160 4% /mnt/sda1

/dev/sda2 833284 28208 763304 4% /mnt/sda2

when i use the config in the guide:

config global automount

option from_fstab 1

option anon_mount 1

config global autoswap

option from_fstab 1

option anon_swap 1

config mount

option target /usb

option device /dev/sda1

option fstype ext4

option options rw,sync

option enabled 1

option enabled_fsck 0

config swap

option device /dev/sda2

option enabled 1

I get:

root@Pineapple:~# df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

rootfs 896 236 660 26% /

/dev/root 5376 5376 0 100% /rom

tmpfs 14764 104 14660 1% /tmp

tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev

/dev/mtdblock3 896 236 660 26% /overlay

overlayfs:/overlay 896 236 660 26% /

/dev/sda1 6896176 232068 6318160 4% /usb

/dev/sdb1 6896176 232068 6318160 4% /mnt/sdb1

/dev/sdb2 833284 28208 763304 4% /mnt/sdb2

what the heck? why did it swap the mount i wanted for swap to sdb2?

Any ideas?

root@Pineapple:~# mkswap /dev/sda2

/dev/sda2: No such file or directory

root@Pineapple:~# mkswap /dev/sdb2

/dev/sdb2: Device or resource busy

35.150000] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.

[ 35.150000] RPC: Registered udp transport module.

[ 35.160000] RPC: Registered tcp transport module.

[ 35.160000] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.

[ 35.430000] PPP generic driver version 2.4.2

[ 35.610000] ip_tables: © 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team

[ 35.830000] NET: Registered protocol family 24

[ 35.960000] nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (461 buckets, 1844 max)

[ 36.650000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ath9k_htc

[ 36.900000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial

[ 36.900000] USB Serial support registered for generic

[ 36.910000] usbcore: registered new interface driver usbserial_generic

[ 36.920000] usbserial: USB Serial Driver core

[ 36.960000] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether

[ 37.070000] Error: Driver 'gpio-keys-polled' is already registered, aborting...

[ 37.180000] usbcore: registered new interface driver rndis_host

[ 37.310000] scsi 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5

[ 37.310000] sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0

[ 38.730000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 38.900000] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

[ 39.050000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 40.580000] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 2

[ 40.590000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Synchronizing SCSI cache

[ 40.590000] sd 1:0:0:0: [sda] Result: hostbyte=0x01 driverbyte=0x00

[ 43.120000] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode

[ 44.490000] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ath79-ehci

[ 44.800000] scsi2 : usb-storage 1-1:1.5

[ 44.800000] scsi3 : usb-storage 1-1:1.6

[ 44.970000] device wlan0 left promiscuous mode

[ 44.980000] br-lan: port 1(wlan0) entering disabled state

[ 45.130000] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode

[ 45.820000] scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM HUAWEI Mass Storage 2.31 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

[ 45.820000] scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 5

[ 45.830000] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access HUAWEI TF CARD Storage PQ: 0 ANSI: 2

[ 45.840000] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0

[ 45.860000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 15523840 512-byte logical blocks: (7.94 GB/7.40 GiB)

[ 45.900000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off

[ 45.900000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0f 0e 00 00

[ 45.900000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA

[ 46.060000] sdb: sdb1 sdb2

[ 46.210000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

[ 47.380000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 47.890000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 49.210000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 49.620000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 50.120000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 50.940000] device wlan0 left promiscuous mode

[ 50.940000] br-lan: port 1(wlan0) entering disabled state

[ 51.180000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 51.800000] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode

[ 52.050000] ath: Failed to stop TX DMA, queues=0x001!

[ 54.210000] device wlan0 left promiscuous mode

[ 54.210000] br-lan: port 1(wlan0) entering disabled state

[ 54.460000] device eth0 entered promiscuous mode

[ 54.650000] device wlan0 entered promiscuous mode

[ 58.050000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering forwarding state

[ 58.050000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering forwarding state

[ 60.820000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 61.120000] EXT4-fs (sdb1): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities

[ 61.130000] EXT4-fs (sdb1): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities

[ 61.170000] EXT4-fs (sdb1): recovery complete

[ 61.170000] EXT4-fs (sdb1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

[ 61.430000] Unable to find swap-space signature

[ 61.730000] EXT4-fs (sdb2): couldn't mount as ext3 due to feature incompatibilities

[ 61.740000] EXT4-fs (sdb2): couldn't mount as ext2 due to feature incompatibilities

[ 61.770000] EXT4-fs (sdb2): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

[ 73.080000] br-lan: port 2(wlan0) entering forwarding state

[ 367.190000] EXT4-fs error (device sda1): ext4_find_entry:935: inode #2: comm ash: reading directory lbl

[PineDominator]

you could try re-flashing firmware and befor plugging in your modem/sd card set it up as per darrens post, I remember someone having a similar issue

would also be handy to know what was the 3g model?

[sawks]

Its a Huawei E367

I just flashed it to the newest yesterday, but ill try flashing it again after work.

Thanks peterfm

[sawks]

I tried reflash and still problems.

Its driving me insain.

If i reboot the pineapple and plug in the usb 3g dongle with sdcard, no trouble with the 2nd fstab config (from darrens howto)

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

rootfs 896 228 668 25% /

/dev/root 5376 5376 0 100% /rom

tmpfs 14764 112 14652 1% /tmp

tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev

/dev/mtdblock3 896 228 668 25% /overlay

overlayfs:/overlay 896 228 668 25% /

/dev/sda1 6896176 232068 6318160 4% /usb

root@Pineapple:~# free

total used free shared buffers

Mem: 29524 21420 8104 0 2588

-/+ buffers: 18832 10692

Swap: 835444 0 835444

If I leave the 3g card in and reboot then i get :

root@Pineapple:~# df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

rootfs 896 228 668 25% /

/dev/root 5376 5376 0 100% /rom

tmpfs 14764 108 14656 1% /tmp

tmpfs 512 0 512 0% /dev

/dev/mtdblock3 896 228 668 25% /overlay

overlayfs:/overlay 896 228 668 25% /

/dev/sda1 6896176 232068 6318160 4% /usb

/dev/sdb1 6896176 232068 6318160 4% /mnt/sdb1

and /usb is unaccesable.

root@Pineapple:~# touch /usb/test

touch: /usb/test: Input/output error

root@Pineapple:~# touch /mnt/sdb1/test

root@Pineapple:~#

mount -a does nothing

Any ideas?

I dont want to have to take out the 3g dongle everytime i want to reboot.

Any help would be ace thank you.

*******FSTAB*******

config global automount

option from_fstab 1

option anon_mount 1

config global autoswap

option from_fstab 1

option anon_swap 1

config mount

option target /usb

option device /dev/sda1

option fstype ext4

option options rw,sync

option enabled 1

option enabled_fsck 0

config swap

option device /dev/sda2

option enabled 1

[sawks]

Wow after hours of pulling my hair out i finally fixed it.

It seemed to try and mount the drives and then mount them again giving multiple mount points.

I put "sleep 10" in /etc/init.d/fstab file after "START=20" and this waits 10 seconds before mounting giving it time to settle in.

This has worked, so i can carry on setting up :) :)

[sickduck]

Thank you very much! I had to use "sleep 20" for it to work for me. What USB 3G modem are you using? I was unable to use the MicroSD card in the dongle but everytime I would boot with the 3G and another flash drive it would not work and this fixed it.