I recently installed Fedora Core 4 on my machine (because I lost my SimplyMepis disk and I'm just going to wait until 3.4 comes out to download the ISO). I was dual-booting, but found out how to get everything I need working natively in Linux or through Wine and/or Cedega. So I'm 100% straight Linux now.

Here's how my system is set up hard drive wise:

1 40GB IDE that is my OS
1 160GB SATA that is my "storage" drive.

When I was dual-booting, I had the 40GB split in half (NTFS for Win2k and ReiserFS for Mepis) and the 160GB SATA formatted as FAT32 (so that both OS's had read/write abilities).

Well when I reformatted the 40GB to just straight Linux, I'm using a distro that I'm not familiar with. With Mepis, all you have to do is click the icon to the /mnt/sda1 drive to mount it, or in terminal type
But I'm not familiar with how Redhat has things going with Fedora.

I go to the "Hardware Browser" under "Applications" (I'm using Gnome btw, just to try it out) and I see both hard drives listed. The 40G is /dev/hda and the SATA is /dev/sda

So when I try to mount it:
But I can't mount it. Therefore, I can't use it.

Anyone familiar enough with Fedora to tell me how I can get to my SATA drive?

I mainly want to get everything burned off of it so when I reinstall Mepis I can use the SATA as the primary drive and the IDE one as a "backup".

First off, you'll be wanting to mount a partition of the whole thing, so do make sure you mount /dev/sda1, not just /dev/sda. Secondly, you may need to add a line into /etc/fstab for it, though FC4 should've done so for you.

never manually updated FSTAB before... how exactly should i write it (don't wanna mess it up, ya know)


whoda thunk that Redhat would have need for more "hands-on" stuff? i thought it would've been the other way around.

I don't think Fedora has ever claimed to be the most user friendly.

In any case, a line for this would look something like:

fedora seems to use /media as a replacement for /mnt, I would probably use /media/sda1 (maybe you like /media/data). don't forget to create the directory /media/sda1 (or what ever you call it).

thanks for the suggestions guys!

I'm in class right now but when I get home, I'll give this a shot and I'll let you know if it worked or not.

woo hoo! it worked!

and Rottenmutt, good call on mkdir - i totally would've forgotten that step.

thanks guys!

once again proving why LQ is the best damn site in the world!


of course, there's a vote on the mepis main page today as to whether or not 3.4 is ready for release, so i'll probably just be reformatting it in a few days anyway, but hey, it got me by for now

Glad you got it working. And yeah, LQ is pretty nice.