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Old 07-27-2004, 01:05 AM   #1
dkw
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brainfart: mounting a new ide drive


Been away from Linux for a couple of years now, forgotten a lot of things and having what amounts to a simple problem I'm sure. When I installed FC2 I forgot to allow it to auto mount the 2nd hard drive in my system and I can't remember how to manually do it in the manner I'd like.

I've looked around a bit and found this link:

linuxgazette.com/issue38/cooper.html

and following that I did get my newly installed drive to mount, however what I cannot remember how to do (nor find the solution to) is how to make it show up at: /data

What I have done so far is:
Code:
[localuser@localhost]# cd /mnt
[localuser@localhost /mnt]# mkdir data
[localuser@localhost /mnt]# chmod 777 data
[localuser@localhost /mnt]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/data
and I added this line to /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/data ext3 defaults 1 1


I assume I could just make a link, but is there another way?
 
Old 07-27-2004, 01:17 AM   #2
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just make a symbolic link to /mnt/data using the

ln -s

command

type

man ln

more the parameters
 
Old 07-27-2004, 01:18 AM   #3
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you want it mounted at "/data" instead of "/mnt/data"???

Code:
[localuser@localhost]# mkdir /data
[localuser@localhost]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /data
fstab would look like:

/dev/hdb1 /data ext3 defaults 1 1

=)


Last edited by win32sux; 07-27-2004 at 01:48 AM.
 
Old 07-27-2004, 01:21 AM   #4
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win32sux: Correct, I've just forgotten if it's possible to do that - or if I need to settle for a link (as jax8 mentioned)
 
Old 07-27-2004, 01:26 AM   #5
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Quote:
Originally posted by dkw
win32sux: Correct, I've just forgotten if it's possible to do that - or if I need to settle for a link (as jax8 mentioned)
on linux you don't need to settle for ANYTHING!!!

=)


let us know if there's anything else you wanna know...

good luck!!!
 
Old 07-27-2004, 01:32 AM   #6
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Ah beautiful, thanks win32sux - just what I was trying to do!

Now to figure out why my smb.conf rewrites itself on boot, and the next project is sendmail (though I'm debating postfix instead)... and apache, php, mysql - can you tell it's going to be a busy week?
 
Old 07-27-2004, 01:51 AM   #7
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sounds like someone is gonna have some fun this week!!!

=)


keep us posted, let us know if you need help with anything...

have fun!!! good luck with your LAMP server!!!

=)


PS: yeah, sendmail has a really bad security reputation...


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