Listing hdd's

Sevoma · 02-08-2005, 05:58 PM

I know this is a very n00bish question, but how do you list the harddrives in linux? I am using Debian 3.0 Sarge. I want to do this so I can setup backup2l for my personal server.

oneandoneis2 · 02-08-2005, 06:19 PM

cd /proc

ls ide

If you have SATA or SCSI, then also

ls scsi

Also, dmesg should mention all your drives, but you may need to search around a bit for them

Sevoma · 02-08-2005, 06:25 PM

Thanks. It is /dev/hdc as I suspected, but I could not mount. How could I mount it.

I tried (as root):

mkdir /mnt/backup
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/backup

I know I am missing something in the mount command but I dont know what.

what filesystem hould I use?

XavierP · 02-08-2005, 06:54 PM

Do you have a directory called /mnt/backup?

You would need to do:
mkdir /mnt/backup
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/backup
cd /mnt/backup

This may need to be done as root, via su

[edit]Sorry, just reread your post, what error messages are you getting?[/edit]

Sevoma · 02-08-2005, 07:21 PM

I type this:
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/backup fat32
and it gives me the commands for mount
if I leave of the fat32, it says to specify filesystem

In fdisk I cannot find how to change the filesystem. I put that on and it defaulted to fat32 (i did this on linux) How could I change it?

Sevoma · 02-08-2005, 08:10 PM

Please help. I need this backup system setup soon.

Tinkster · 02-08-2005, 09:52 PM

Per the LQ rules that you accepted please do NOT
bump your posts until 24 hours have passed...

You can't mount the raw-device, it doesn't have ANY
filesystem that you can use with mount.

First find out what partitions you have:
(as root)
fdisk -l

Then try
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc<N> /mnt/backup
where <N> is the number of the partition that
would be the fat-one ...

Cheers,
Tink

Sevoma · 02-10-2005, 05:23 PM

Thanks Tinkster. Sorry about the bumping. It works now.

Tinkster · 02-10-2005, 05:55 PM

Cool - glad I could help :)

Cheers,
Tink