Mounting..

sp0k34 · 10-06-2006, 09:36 PM

I'm a fairly new linux user, learning a lot as of right now. I'm trying to get my two 250GB sata drives mounted. The drives are recognized as /dev/sdd5 and /dev/sdb1. Ubuntu dapper under gnome is my current O.S. The drives are formatted in ext3 and i get this fdisk -l output:

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Disk /dev/sde: 2017 MB, 2017460224 bytes
16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 7696 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sde1 * 1 7696 1970160 6 FAT16 ($$MY FLASH DRIVE$$)

Disk /dev/sdg: 300.0 GB, 300069052416 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 36481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdg1 * 1 36481 293033601 7 HPFS/NTFS ($$MY 300GB usb hard drive$$)
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Now I just want to know how I can go about getting access to the two ext3 250GB sata drives, I would need to have these mounted on startup also. Any solutions?

hepburnenthorpe · 10-06-2006, 10:02 PM

Adding something like.

Code:

/dev/sdd5               /dir1              ext3        noatime,notail  0 1
/dev/sdb1               /dir2               ext3        noatime,notail  0 1

to your /etc/fstab. Then...

Code:

mkdir /dir{1,2}
mount /dev/sdd5 /dir1
mount /dev/sdb1 /dir2

Of course you can change the names of the directories from dir1 and dir2.

verdeboy2k · 10-06-2006, 10:05 PM

add these lines to your /etc/fstab:

Code:

/dev/sde1     /mount/point0     ext3     defaults     0 0
/dev/sdg1     /mount/point1     ext3     defaults     0 0

What this does:
specifies the device, mount point, filesystem, options (defaults in every distro I used is a good choice, or just use whatever /'s options are), the fifth field is used by the dump command, just leave it zero, and the sixth field is the fsck scan priority if you systems crash... unless you keep valuable data on these drives, its safe to leave it at zero (don't automatically check).

For more in-depth information consult "man /etc/fstab"

sp0k34 · 10-06-2006, 11:03 PM

Wow both of you guys, hepburnenthorpe for giving me the answer, and verdeboy2k for making me understand why. Very helpful.

EDIT: But when I do this, it is only allowing 13.8 GB to each of the folders I created. Obviously it is creating the folder in the actual filesystem I am running off of. How can I have it as just a separate device, or as a mapped folder under media which would probably be best?