I've got third disk drive. howto to mount it?

You can use `/sbin/fdisk -l device` to list the partitions on a device. The /dev/hd* devices are allocated to each IDE drive, CD and DVD drive attached to the IDE interfaces on your motherboard. If you have, for example, 2 hard disks, a CD drive and a DVD drive, your third IDE drive might be /dev/hde so you'd type `/sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hde` to view any existing partitions on it.

If there are no partitions, you can use fdisk to create them and then you'll need to create a filesystem on each partition (for example with mkfs.ext3). After that you can mount them.

Have a look at the mount and fstab man pages, but briefly for an ext3 filesystem it would be something like:

/sbin/mount -t ext3 /dev/hde1 /mnt/drive3

You'd just have to type '/sbin/mount /drive3' with an entry like the following to /etc/fstab:

/dev/hde1 /mnt/drive3 ext3 defaults 1 2

thanks man!=) you showed me the right way!

Glad to help :-) Just out of curiousity, what are you formatting the new drive as (ext2, ext3, reiserfs, something else)? I'm about to add another drive and haven't made up my mind what filesystem to put on it. I use ext3 at the moment, but reiserfs sounds good...

As I know "reiserfs sounds good" on partitions with "small" files.. My Slackware sits on reiser and feels good..=) ext3 and XFS (as I remember) are good with dif media stuff and big files such as films and etc. I formatted my drive with ext3, journalized and stable, just what I need to store my big coll. of music=) It's now about 110 GB of mp3 and I just need new drive. That's my story=)

Cool - thanks for that