I am pretty much a complete linux newbie, so please excuse any really stupid things I may say...

I am currently trying to mount my 120GB IBM/Hitachi HDD which I recently purchased to replace my full 80GB one. I have had no luck in trying to get it to mount. To the best of my knowledge this should be working... It did with my old disk. It is a fat32 partition, and only has one partition on it.

Logged in as root I write:

mount /dev/hdb1/ /mnt/files/

This outputs the following:

mount: special device /dev/hdb1/ does not exist
(a path prefix is not a directory)

The same happens when I try it with -t vfat included. I know it is not the wrong number, as I have checked with hdb0(which I am pretty sure does not and should not exist) and hdb2 (which is exactly the same output as hdb1). I am running RedHat9.0.

If you need any other information leave a message, and preferably instructions of how to find out (like I said I am really very new to linux).

Thanks,

Sam.

Welcome to LQ.

Just too many slashes I think - try:
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/files

pretty much says it all... you're actually typing it wrong... "/dev/hdb1" IF that does actually exist.... to check try "fdisk -l /dev/hdb"

It works... Now I feel really stupid.