accessing a 2nd drive I added

joel b · 02-23-2005, 11:45 PM

Hello - I am using Fedora Core3, and added a 2nd hard drive - this hd is from my old linux box, it has a defective suse 9.1 os and about 60 gigs of media files in /home/joel (me).
I want to know how to access that directory which I think is dev/hdb2/home/joel/music and move it to hda1, then erase hdb and use it for archiving mp3's which may be accessed by all users on my system.

thanks!

roninja · 02-23-2005, 11:52 PM

as root type
mkdir /mnt/hd
mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/hd
then you should be able to access it by typing
cd /mnt/hd/home/joel

joel b · 02-23-2005, 11:59 PM

I get this:

mount: can't find /dev/hdb2/mnt/hd in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Dark_Helmet · 02-24-2005, 12:04 AM

You missed a space in that command

Code:

mount /dev/hdb2  /mnt/hd

EDIT: Ooops, left off the '2'

joel b · 02-24-2005, 12:10 AM

OK - Thanks! I got through that command, and then -
bash: cd: /mnt/hdb2/home/joel: No such file or directory

hdb2 is a basic suse 9.1 setup - do I maybe have the wrong path?

Dark_Helmet · 02-24-2005, 12:17 AM

You would cd to it with this command:

Code:

cd /mnt/hd/home/joel

Quote:

bash: cd: /mnt/hdb2/home/joel: No such file or directory

It just looks like you accidentally used the device name there instead of just plain old hd. Unless, of course, you were tweaking the earlier commands a little before running them on your system.

EDIT:
If you still get an error, then it's either the wrong partition, or a slightly different path than you recall. It really depends on how the Suse system was set up (with regard to partitions).

joel b · 02-24-2005, 12:29 AM

you are a genious. One more thing - to copy this huge directory to hda/home/joel so that I can delete everything else there, (there are about 7 directories here with 60 gig total, would my command look like this -

cp /mnt/hd/home/joel/* /home/joel/

???

Thank you so much for all this - you have saved me hours!

joel

roninja · 02-24-2005, 12:39 AM

cp /mnt/hd/home/joel/* /home/joel/ -R

joel b · 02-24-2005, 01:00 AM

Success. How great was that!

Thank you truly - for all your help!

joel