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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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randon
Distribution: Ubuntu 11.4,DD-WRT micro plus ssh,lfs-6.6,Fedora 15,Fedora 16
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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
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........
'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.
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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