install/mount second hd in debian

inus · 09-11-2005, 08:40 AM

Hi

I have installed debian on a Pentium 2 350 mhz computer. I installed debian on the first hd (master) 4, 6 gig. I have another hd (slave) of 40 gig . Debian sees this disk. I can partition it with fdisk in root terminal, but i cannot mount it. something like mount /dev/hdb1 doesn't work if i type /dev/hdb1 i get the message: acces denied. I'm logged in as root. Can someone tell me how to get to this hd? I'ts a western digital.

thanks, Inus

acid_kewpie · 09-11-2005, 08:44 AM

you firstly need to format it, so as root use "mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1" for an ext3 file system. then also as root mount it: "mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/slave" for example. if that works then add an /etc/fstab entry to do it automatically: "/dev/hdb1 /mnt/slave ext3 defaults 1 2"

david_ross · 09-11-2005, 08:46 AM

Welcome to LQ.

Once you partitioned it, did you put a filesystem on it with mkfs?

inus · 09-11-2005, 09:00 AM

i formatted the disk like you told me, but the command mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/slave doesn't work i get the message "mount point mnt/slave does not exist"

acid_kewpie · 09-11-2005, 09:02 AM

that was just an example directory, make your own wherever you feel like.

piva.francesco · 09-11-2005, 09:39 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by inus
i formatted the disk like you told me, but the command mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/slave doesn't work i get the message "mount point mnt/slave does not exist"

in order to mount and to use your slave disk you must create a directory where your /dev/hdb1 will be mounted. you need to create (for example) /mnt/slave

Code:

mkdir /mnt/slave

then you run as root:

Code:

mount -t FS_TYPE  /dev/hdb1 /mnt/slave

normally you could see your 40gigs drive in the /mnt/slave directory.

If you don't want to do the "mount -t ...." command every time you boot, you can just put it into fstab as acid_kewpie said.
you go in your fstab and you add this line:

Code:

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/slave FS_TYPE defaults 1 2

my fstab looks like this and I have the same config as yours. One master hard disk and a slave; check it out:

Code:

/dev/hda1		/		reiserfs	noatime			1 1
/dev/hda4		none		swap		sw			0 0
/dev/hdc		/mnt/cdrom	iso9660		noauto,user,ro		0 0
/dev/hdb1		/mnt/dd2	reiserfs	defaults		0 0
none			/proc		proc		defaults		0 0

inus · 09-11-2005, 09:51 AM

Okay, Here is what i did
fdisk /dev/hdb
I made a primary partition from the whole disk (40gig)
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1
mkdir /workspace
mount -t ext3 dev/hdb1 /workspace

so far it went ok

I tried the last step /dev/hdb1 /workspace ext3 defaults 1 2 but it says: no acces permission, what can i do?

inus · 09-11-2005, 09:52 AM

...and i see the workspace in computer/workspace, but it says it has 34,8 gig available

acid_kewpie · 09-11-2005, 10:30 AM

that "last step" is not a command, but an example line you would add to /etc/fstab.