How to install a new hard drive on to existing system

ksgill · 02-06-2005, 10:08 PM

I just had a hard drive lying around and I installed it on one of my machines. How do I set it up in /etc/fstab? I tried a couple different variations and it doesnt seem to work. Any help would be appreciated. Hard drive is detected by Suse 9.1 and worked properly before.

Thanks

ganja_guru · 02-06-2005, 10:15 PM

whats the name of the hard drive? what file system?

for eg, if its fat 32, and called /dev/hdb then u need to

mkdir /mnt/hdb

/dev/hdb /mnt/hdb vfat defaults 0 0

thats the most basic and it should work

for ntfs, replace with "ntfs"

ksgill · 02-07-2005, 12:14 AM

Its reiserfs file system, I dont use windows

Its called /dev/hdd

__J · 02-07-2005, 12:17 AM

just add something like:

/dev/hdd /mnt/hdd reiserfs defaults 0 0

and put the options you want in (like noauto, users and such. see man mount for the available options) and change /mnt/hdd to wherever you want it to mount.