Red Hat 8.0 Mounting Troubles...[Newbie]

DasXel · 02-19-2003, 07:17 PM

Thanks for everyone before with my question about typing in Japanese...

I'm now running Red Hat 8.0 and enjoying every minute!

But I have another question, how do I mount my second hardrive that is connected to my first IDE port as a slave? The Hard drive is completly empty, so should I fdisk it, partition it? And how do I know the name of the Hard drive example, /hdf or /hde ?
(I know this must be a stupid question) but I did try searching on a few search engines with 0 results that worked...

any tips would really help me! Thanks!

revolution · 02-19-2003, 07:37 PM

ive never tried to mount a drive that was empty. I would think that RH see's it as hdb as your first drive as hda. you should be able to mount it with

Code:

$mount /mnt/hdb

02-19-2003, 07:44 PM

Partition it with fdisk or cfdisk and the name is probably hdb so do mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb should work as root...

Admin · 02-20-2003, 07:44 AM

wouldnt you want an entry in /etc/fstab so it automaticly mounts it on boot?

schotty · 02-20-2003, 08:36 AM

Hello,

First fdisk it and make some partitions. Then you can format it. Then lastly you may mount it. The reason there is, that you need to tell mount what partition type it is when mounting. If you have an ext or resier filesystem, mount needs to know this. If you have an entry in /etc/fstab mount can read the fs type from there, as well as the destination mount point.