[Watford] Second Hard Disk

[walt]

Many thanks.

I created a folder in /dev 'hda2' and mounted the drive manually into which
worked fine.  After a reboot, the folder had disappeared and I had to
recreate it and remount the drive.  Will that stay put once I make the fstab
entry?

Although I managed to build this Suse system 3 times now from scratch
without looking into a book or checking the web I am still struggling to
remember where everything goes.  I even managed to change the partition
sizes during the partition phase of the install. Nevertheless, I am
beginning to wonder whether I am just not cut out for this Linux lark
because once installed I just have no idea how to change hardware etc.  

I tried to repair a system by moving the disk from one motherboard to
another and then applying the repair option from the installation disk just
like it says in the manual.  It fell over every time.  It even fell over
after I moved the disk back to the original system.  I will have to keep
windows going because I have no way back at the moment if Linux fails.

Anyway, thanks again, Walter

-----Original Message-----
From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Neel Upadhyaya
Sent: 17 January 2008 20:43
To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Watford] Second Hard Disk

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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:watford-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Neel Upadhyaya
> Sent: 17 January 2008 19:08
> To: watford at mailman.lug.org.uk
> 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.
>
> --
> MCSE is to computers as McDonalds Certified Chef is to fine cuisine.
>
>
> 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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