mounting second hard disk in fedora core 4

dardstrak · 09-22-2006, 03:36 AM

I have physically installed a second hard drive in my computer with fedora core 4 OS but I can not see it in the storage media. What should I do.

zulfilee · 09-22-2006, 06:30 AM

Welcome to LQ :-)

You need to mount the hard disk to use it.
But before that the hard disk must have a partition.

If its a empty disk, here are some tips to use it

. Check the harddisk ide [hdb / hdc / hdd ]
. Create a partition
Use
fdisk /dev/<harddiskide>

Type m for help and create the partition

. Format the partition
Use
mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdc1
[If hdc1 was the partition u created]

. Finally mount the partition in a directory you created
mount /dev/hdc1 /media/harddisk

dardstrak · 09-24-2006, 10:23 PM

My disk is not empty really. I am mounting it to another computer because the system can not continue booting, and I need to copy my files on it. T.Y.

zulfilee · 09-25-2006, 12:48 AM

Ok , then connect the disk as a Primary slave [hdb] [If the disk is not getting detected , probably the jumper setting must be wrong.]

This can be checked in the BIOS itself [as to if the disk is getting detected or not]

The a mount command should be enough to mount the disk and copy your files.

If the above method is not working, be a bit more descriptive as to what the problem is.

dardstrak · 10-04-2006, 10:22 PM

Ok my second hard disk has correct jumper settings because it has been detected in the BIOS. However it is not yet appear in the storage media. What will I do next? Where will I go next? Is there a command prompt in Fedora Core 4? How to go there? Where will I type those commands you've told me, like the a mount command. Thank You and please be patient.

zulfilee · 10-05-2006, 01:32 AM

For a terminal just go to Run
and enter

xterm

This will open up a terminal.

Or for the orginal consoles press

Alt+F1
Alt+F2 etc [There will be 6 consoles till F6]

Alt+F7 will bring back the GUI window.

In the console you can enter the mount,fdisk commands and check if harddisk has been detected.

Try these commands

fdisk -l /dev/hdb

mount