Where is my second HD on the filesystem...

jesuscakes · 06-01-2006, 12:40 PM

I am running Fedora Core 5 and Windows on two partitions on a 300 gig HD. I have a second 80 gig HD for music installed as well that is empty and formatted with a Fat 32 system. My question is how do I find it so I can put music there through Fedora.

Lenard · 06-01-2006, 01:44 PM

Depends on which bus the second hard drive is on, to find it do something like;

fdisk -l ;(that is the lower case letter 'L' and not the number one)

Read 'man mount' from the console or xterm session for the details and additional options, assumming the second hard drive is on the primary channel of the second IDE interface try typing something like(as root);

mkdir /media/Music
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /media/Music

You might want to have a look at your /etc/fstab file beforehand, the hard drive and FAT32 partition may already be available.

jesuscakes · 06-01-2006, 01:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lenard

Depends on which bus the second hard drive is on, to find it do something like;

fdisk -l ;(that is the lower case letter 'L' and not the number one)

Read 'man mount' from the console or xterm session for the details and additional options, assumming the second hard drive is on the primary channel of the second IDE interface try typing something like(as root);

mkdir /media/Music
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc1 /media/Music

You might want to have a look at your /etc/fstab file beforehand, the hard drive and FAT32 partition may already be available.

It is an SATA on the other master slot.

b0uncer · 06-01-2006, 01:48 PM

If it's a secondary harddisk (slave), then it's probably called hdb am I right (the primary HD is hda)? In that case you'll just need to create a directory for it somewhere, if it already doesn't have; run mount in console to see the mounted filesystems, and you should see if the HD is mounted or not.

If it's not, then make it available for easy mounting through fstab: first create the mountpoint (in this example /media/musichd which you can change as you like), then add an fstab entry with some options (in this example I'll make it mount automatically at bootup, and be accessible by _all_ users through umask, and be read-write mounted since it's fat32). So, get root privileges by either logging in as root, doing su or running the commands through sudo:

1) create mountpoint

Code:

mkdir /media/musichd

2) add fstab entry

Code:

nano -w /etc/fstab

change the red-coloured part to be your favourite editor (vim,gedit,kate,kwrite,joe,emacs,...)..
3) here's the line you add to the bottom of the fstab file you opened a moment ago:

Quote:

/dev/hdb1 /media/musichd vfat rw,users,auto,umask=0222 0 0

(if it's complaining about the filesystem type, change "vfat" to "auto" to make sure)
4) mount-and-enjoy:

Code:

mount -a

after that you should be able to use the HD by opening /media/musichd which should get mounted every time you boot. If you get error telling you no such device as /dev/hdb1 exists, your HD appears under a different name; check out what hdXX-files you have in /dev/ and try them instead of hdb1 in your fstab config.

jesuscakes · 06-01-2006, 02:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by b0uncer

If it's a secondary harddisk (slave), then it's probably called hdb am I right (the primary HD is hda)? In that case you'll just need to create a directory for it somewhere, if it already doesn't have; run mount in console to see the mounted filesystems, and you should see if the HD is mounted or not.

If it's not, then make it available for easy mounting through fstab: first create the mountpoint (in this example /media/musichd which you can change as you like), then add an fstab entry with some options (in this example I'll make it mount automatically at bootup, and be accessible by _all_ users through umask, and be read-write mounted since it's fat32). So, get root privileges by either logging in as root, doing su or running the commands through sudo:

1) create mountpoint

Code:

mkdir /media/musichd

2) add fstab entry

Code:

nano -w /etc/fstab

change the red-coloured part to be your favourite editor (vim,gedit,kate,kwrite,joe,emacs,...)..
3) here's the line you add to the bottom of the fstab file you opened a moment ago:

(if it's complaining about the filesystem type, change "vfat" to "auto" to make sure)
4) mount-and-enjoy:

Code:

mount -a

after that you should be able to use the HD by opening /media/musichd which should get mounted every time you boot. If you get error telling you no such device as /dev/hdb1 exists, your HD appears under a different name; check out what hdXX-files you have in /dev/ and try them instead of hdb1 in your fstab config.

The drive is showing up as both sdb and sdb1.

I did what you said and it bitched about FS type so I changed it to auto now I get: "mount: you must specify the filesystem type"

Nylex · 06-01-2006, 04:03 PM

What was the exact error message when you tried to specify the filesystem type as vfat? Also, the drive and partition show up as sdxy because it's a serial ATA disk; hdxy is for parallel ATA (IDE) devices.

Lenard · 06-01-2006, 05:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jesuscakes

The drive is showing up as both sdb and sdb1.

I did what you said and it bitched about FS type so I changed it to auto now I get: "mount: you must specify the filesystem type"

Check the /etc/filesystems file, do you have a line entry for vfat??? If not then add one.

jesuscakes · 06-01-2006, 05:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lenard

Check the /etc/filesystems file, do you have a line entry for vfat??? If not then add one.

Here is the files cotents:

"ext3
ext2
nodev proc
nodev devpts
iso9660
vfat
hfs
hfsplus"

Do you think maybe I should try sdb1 instead?

jesuscakes · 06-01-2006, 05:57 PM

I changed it to sdb1 and vfat now it works flawlessly.

Nylex · 06-01-2006, 11:31 PM

Yes, you need to mount the partition rather than the device itself.