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Old 10-14-2003, 08:58 PM   #1
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What do I type to mount the new hard drive?


Hi all, I just installed a new hard disk and now in mandrake I have a icon on my desktop that says that the new drive is 'unmounted'. What do I type to mount the drive?
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Old 10-14-2003, 08:59 PM   #2
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I think all you have to do is right click on the icon and select "mount".
 
Old 10-14-2003, 09:02 PM   #3
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have you partitioned and formatted the hd?
that would be the first step, using fdisk to partion and mkfs -t ext2
then mount /dev/whichever it is, be it hdb, hdc hdd, hde, etc...) probably hdb for a second ide hard drive
 
Old 10-14-2003, 09:02 PM   #4
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then you can use the mount command to mount it
 
Old 10-14-2003, 09:03 PM   #5
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oh yes, you should put an entry in your /etc/fstab for it to make the icon able to mount it as well
 
Old 10-16-2003, 07:34 PM   #6
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Originally posted by frieza
oh yes, you should put an entry in your /etc/fstab for it to make the icon able to mount it as well
How do I go about doing that? Sorry, I'm a nOOb.....
 
Old 10-16-2003, 07:50 PM   #7
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First check if there isn't already an entry for it: 'cat /etc/fstab' (run in terminal/command-line). The fstab works like this:
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#<device> <mnt-point> <fs-type> <options> <dump><pass>
/dev/hda1   /mnt/hd         ext2          ro,user      0          0
This is just an example. Add lines in this format to fstab. What kind of hard drive is this/which ide channel is it on?

Last edited by aaa; 10-16-2003 at 07:51 PM.
 
Old 10-16-2003, 07:54 PM   #8
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Its an IBM 40 GB Caviar......it's connected as slave to another 40 GB maxtor. No raid or anything, strictly as backup...Thanks for the quick reply........
 
Old 10-16-2003, 07:55 PM   #9
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Primary or Secondary?
 
Old 10-16-2003, 07:56 PM   #10
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Secondary.....
 
Old 10-16-2003, 07:57 PM   #11
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Run the command 'fdisk -l /dev/hdd' in a terminal/command-line. This will show you all the partitions on the disk.
 
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it's already partitioned and formatted NTFS.......I'll try that anyway......Thanks again....
 
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'fdisk -l' just lists the partitions. Note that you should mount NTFS as read-only, otherwise you risk damaging it. Add the 'ro' option in fstab like I did in the example. You might want to change the partition to FAT32.
 
Old 10-16-2003, 08:07 PM   #14
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Well I was planning to take ten gigs out of it and put Red Hat 9 on it and use the rest for winbloze storage.......And use the native ext2 (I think thats what it's called) for red hat and keep the other part NTFS using Partition magic......
 
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I run XP on hda1 and RH9 on hdb1. ...I can acess the win files because I used FAT32...it makes life a whole lot easier.
 
  


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