[Watford] Second Hard Disk

[Neel Upadhyaya]

don't mount the drive in /dev do it in /mnt or /media.

dev is rebuit every time you reboot.


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