Second Hardrive

I have Inserted a second harddrive into my system but I don't seem to get it mounted.

I know it's there because it is in the hardware browser, but i can not display it's contents. I have tried the following command:

mount dev/hdd1 on /home
mount -t dev/hdd1 /home

but everytime it displays a bunch of info about mounting and the filesystem still does not appear in home.
A bit of help please.

Thanks

man mount

will get you the documentation. I think you want:

mount /dev/hdd1 /home

You probably also want to set up an entry in /etc/fstab. Again, see the manpage:

man fstab

I doubt you want to mount something OVER your mount, as your home will disapears 'til you unmount the drive.
Do as rjlee said and then take a look at /etc/fstab. This file is the list of hdd that will mounted on boot (and options about these drive).

I've tried all of it I have read the man mount and i have read tutorials. But it still does not work. The command I am using now is

mount -t FAT16 dev/hdd1 /home/hdd1

I think the problem might lie with the fstab, can you perhaps give me a brief explanation of what fstab is and how to edit it

Originally posted by Die Woud mount -t FAT16 dev/hdd1 /home/hdd1

The fstab file basically contains settings that get passed to the mount command to mount a given directory, so if this doesn't work, then editing fstab won't help you.

Where are you running the command from? By specifying dev/hdd1 you will look for the device file in the dev subdirectory under the current directory; you probably want to specify /dev/hdd1 rather than without the leading slash.

Also, try -t auto; FAT16 is quite a rare filesystem these days.

try :
mount /dev/hdd1 /home/hdd1

you probably dont need -t fat16 option

and if you could post the error msg (is it "mount: special device dev/hdd1 does not exist ?" ) it could help us.

I've have tried this mount -t /dev/hdd1 /home/hdd1
Still nothing, or atleast it seems like nothing, because after i press enter a bunch of info pops up the first line of the info sais : mount -V Print Version

And the last line sais: for many more details try man 8 mount

if i use mount without the -t then it give me the special device dev/hdd1 does not exist message.

right... and what's if you type the exact command I gave you, with the first "/" (in red in my post) in front of dev/hdd1 ?
Syntax IS important.

Originally posted by Die Woud I've have tried this mount -t /dev/hdd1 /home/hdd1 Still nothing, or atleast it seems like nothing, because after i press enter a bunch of info pops up the first line of the info sais : mount -V Print Version And the last line sais: for many more details try man 8 mount

The -t option specifies that the next option is the filesystem type. So you're trying to mount a filesystem of type /dev/hdd1 from device /home/hdd1.

Unfortunately, /home/hdd1 is (presumably) a directory, not a device-special file. And you haven't specified where to mount the device.

What you want to try is:

mount /dev/hdd1 /home/hdd1

Also, in case it's not clear, the last line suggests that you look at the mount manpage using the command:

man 8 mount

thanks, it worked

*sigh* superb

if i put in the command mount /dev/hdd /home/hdd
will it mount all the partitions or won't it worked?

man mount

Originally posted by Die Woud if i put in the command mount /dev/hdd /home/hdd will it mount all the partitions or won't it worked?

That won't work. You need to mount each partition seperately.