[Watford] Second Hard Disk

[Neel Upadhyaya]

if it's ide then you'll need to do something like
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /path/to/mount/point
SATA:
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /path/to/mount/point

Basically:
the sd and hd refer to sata and ide respectively
the b refers to the device 'a' being the first disk, 'b' the second etc.
the 1 refers to the partition (starting at 1).

Make sure the path you point to exists as an empty dir or it wont mount.

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On 17/01/2008, walt <walt at helvatron.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> How do I get Linux to mount an additional hard disk which I intent to use
> for data storage?
>
> I am using Suse 10.3 and the hardware monitor reports the disk as /dev/sdb
> but when I try to mount it tells me it can't find it and that it cant find
> this in fstab.  Its already portioned to ext3 and I need to get some data
> off it so I don't want to re-partion it. I suspect each partion has to be
> declared in fstab.
>
> I have no idea how to edit this and gnome seems to have no utility to set
> this up either.
>
> Thanks for your help.
> Walter
>
>
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