[Watford] Second Hard Disk

[Neel Upadhyaya]

Your fstab line should look something like this
/dev/sdb1                 /mnt/spare_drive            ext3    defaults
       0 0

This would mount sdb1 on /mnt/spare_drive as ext3 with the default options.

On 17/01/2008, walt <walt at helvatron.co.uk> wrote:
> 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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>
> 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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