[Watford] Second Hard Disk

[walt]

Great thanks!  But the hardware detection software reports the disk as sdb
although it is ide.  Does the fstab contain the path to the mount point of
the other drives?

Walter

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[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Neel Upadhyaya
Sent: 17 January 2008 19:08
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Subject: Re: [Watford] Second Hard Disk

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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