I haven't been in this forum in many years; y'all help me get my first linux server up and running and I haven't had any troubles with it untill if finally pooped out on me the other day. I forgot most of what I new about linux for lack of use, so maybe y'all can tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I have 2 linux hard drives... I have redhat 7.2 freshly installed on a 10gb and then I have a linux partitioned 120gb that has all my backed up media. When I boot my computer I see that the new hard drive is labeled hdc

When I try to run the mount command 'mount -t etc3 /dev/hdc /media' I get an error "mount: /dev/hdc/ is not a valid block device" does this mean it's not recognizing hdc? I don't see it listed with I do mount -l or fdisk -l

Please help!
-Andy

Do you have it in /etc/fstab?
nano -w /etc/fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
LABEL=/home /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/var /var ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0


What a I looking for? HDC? I know it says it when it boots...

When I try to run the mount command 'mount -t etc3 /dev/hdc /media' I get an error "mount: /dev/hdc/ is not a valid block device" does this mean it's not recognizing hdc? I don't see it listed with I do mount -l or fdisk -l

Is that a typo, it should be mount -t ext3

Which drive is hda that your fstab points to?
I would say that you have 7 partitions on hda that are mounted.

If you have that 120GB drive partitioned and formated ext3 then your mount command should look something like
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc /media auto users
That is assuming that you have a folder under / named /media

Are you trying to mount the drive as user or root?

hdc would be the master drive on the secondary IDE controller. Is that where you have it?

Yes, that was a typo. I'm mounting it as root, and yes it's on the secondary IDE controller.

When I try to use the command 'mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc /media auto users' it doesn't work (it just acts like I put in the wrong command).

you mount partitions, not the entire hdd - for example,

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /media

or hdc2, etc.....

It says the same thing...

[root@localhost root]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdc1 /media
mount: /dev/hdc1 is not a valid block device

...is that what it says when it doesn't even recognize the hard drive?