cannot mount already formatted secondary hard drive on newly installed debian

angmar · 08-05-2005, 01:19 PM

Hi, I am new to linuxquestions.org

I am having a problem. I have a secondary hard drive (primary slave) that is already formatted with reiserfs and contains files that i need. I just installed debian, and I cannot seem to get access to hdb. There is no mount point set, I know I can use cfdisk to set a mount point, but only after formatting the hard drive..and I do not want to do this. Can anyone please tell me how to set a mount point for hdb without destroying all my data. Thank you kindly.

Matir · 08-05-2005, 01:39 PM

You don't set a 'mount point' with cfdisk. Do 'fdisk -l /dev/hdb' to see what partitions are on hdb, then you'll need to mount the partition itself.

comprookie2000 · 08-05-2005, 01:41 PM

Post fdisk -l
Just so we can see the partitions
if you just want to see or copy one partition
as root;

Code:

mkdir /mnt/other(or whatever name you want)
mount /dev/hdb1(or whatever partition)/mnt/other

to unmount

Code:

umount /dev/hdb1

get the idea?

angmar · 08-05-2005, 01:43 PM

Disk /dev/hdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 79656 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 79656 40146592+ 83 Linux

angmar · 08-05-2005, 01:50 PM

also when i try to mount /dev/hdb1 i get this can't find /dev/hdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Matir · 08-05-2005, 01:52 PM

Have you added /dev/hdb1 to the /etc/fstab file?

You need a line like

Code:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/somewhere ext3 defaults 0 0

where ext3 is the filesystem on /dev/hdb1.

angmar · 08-05-2005, 02:01 PM

i just added it and i got this when i ran the mount command:

mntent]: warning: no final newline at the end of /etc/fstab

angmar · 08-05-2005, 02:04 PM

Oh, ok, i got it...it was a mistake on my part, I thought that hdb1 was formatted with reiser, its with ext3. Stupidity on my part, thank you for your help.

comprookie2000 · 08-05-2005, 02:12 PM

You did fine, the only "stupid" thing is to give up.