hey i got slack installed onto scsi hdd
but i want to access my sata hdd as well, how do i go about doing that?

as i searched i found out i needed to mount it, but i am not too sure how.

the second hdd has fluxbuntu on it, if that makes any difference.

If you want only to access the second hard drive files from Slackware, then edit /etc/fstab to add the mount points. You do not need to reboot. After saving fstab run mount -a.

If you want to dual boot Fluxbuntu along with Slackware, then edit your bootloader (grub or lilo). If you want to access Slackware files from Fluxbuntu, then also edit the Fluxbuntu fstab.

First off, you'll need to know what the path to the device is. You can see what devices are available in /proc/partitions.

herbert@logical:/proc$ cat partitions
major minor #blocks name

8 0 312571224 sda
8 1 16000708 sda1
8 2 996030 sda2
8 3 1 sda3
8 4 113579550 sda4
8 5 127997856 sda5
8 6 16000708 sda6
8 7 4996183 sda7
8 8 32997478 sda8
8 16 7831552 sdb
8 20 7823623 sdb4

I just plugged in a thumb drive, which now shows as sdb and sdb4. Therefore the drive is /dev/sdb, and the only partition on that drive at /dev/sdb4. You can see what the current devices are that are mounted with the mount command.

herbert@logical:/proc$ mount
/dev/root on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=continue,data=ordered)
/proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/sda2 on /boot type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/sda4 on /mnt/extra1 type ext3 (rw,noatime)
/dev/sda5 on /mnt/extra2 type ext3 (rw,noatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

You should be able to figure out which device your other drive is by comparing what is mounted, and what still isn't mounted from the /proc/partitions file. Now you can mount the drive manually with the mount command and look at its contents to be sure you're mounting the correct device. You can mount it anywhere, I use /mnt/tmp, just to make sure its going to work.

mount /dev/sd** /mnt/tmp

Normally this works. If it doesn't you may need to add the file system type of the drive.

mount -t reiserfs /dev/sd?? /mnt/tmp

You can see all the different types of file system names in "man mount". If you have mounted the file system without an issue, you can see what type it is by running the mount command again.

...
/dev/sda5 on /mnt/extra2 type ext3 (rw,noatime)
...

Here the type is "ext3". You'll need this for when you permanently add the partition to /etc/fstab so its mounted at boot time. Now edit /etc/fstab, adding a new line for your new partition.

...
/dev/sda5 /mnt/extra2 ext3 defaults,noatime 1 2
...

Here the device is /dev/sda5 and the place its mounted to is /mnt/extra2. The file system type is "ext3". The options used are "defaults" and "noatime", "noatime" meaning the drive isn't written to every time a file is accessed. The last numbers can be used. The last one is 2 as it is not the root filesystem and fsck uses that information when mounting the drive.

Alright man, thanks, that cleared out everything

thanks a lot.