hi. <----newb

i have slack10.2 reiserfs as my main OS on the master harddrive... i have a 2nd harddrive with reiserfs sitting as a slave on the chain.. how do i go about making slack detecting it and being able to mount it. thankx

Well following that your first drive is hda1 then your second drive should be hda2. hda2 should show up in /dev. So go to /dev while in root and ln hda2 whateveryoufeellikenamingyourlink. Then edit the fstab file to include it(don't know what fstab is? check out shilo's website under the thread "how I do it all", he has a page on fstab).

That is assuming your setup is as mentioned above. It would probably be best to take a look at your fstab and if you can't make heads or tails of it post it here. That way we can tell you if your drive is already mounted or if it is awaiting you in /mnt or whatever.

You can use fdisk to display the partitions on the second hard drive. Since it's on the same IDE channel as the first drive you can use:

Once you have the partitions listed, you can add them to /etc/fstab. If the partition you wanted to mount was /dev/hdb5, you would use something like:

If you have specific mount requirements, you would change defaults to the options that you need. See the man pages for fstab and mount for more details.

First, There is no way of knowing that this guys setup has the first drive recognized as /dev/hda. It may be, but them again, maybe it isn't. He never said.

His first drive is not /dev/hda1. dev/hda1 is the first PARTITION of the first drive. It follows that /dev/hda2 is not the second drive. /dev/hda2 is the second PARTITION on the first drive. If the first drive is /dev/hda, it is likely that the second drive is /dev/hdb (and the first partiton of the second drive is /dev/hdb1).

There is no need to make a link to a device in order to mount it. This is especially true if the second HDD is internal (won't be changing it often, so persistant naming is not an issue).

Editing /etc/fstab is optional, depending on the needs of the user.

Finally, I recommend you do:
1)
This will tell you what HDDs are recognized on your system

2) Figure out which drive you are working with. Find out about that drive. If for example, the second HDD is /dev/hdb, use this command to learn about the device:

Look at the info. Jot it down, if you like. Quit cfdisk without doing anything else. You should now know the partitions and their filetypes.

3) Figure out where you want to mount the device. If the directoty doesn't exist, create it.

4) Use your new info to mount the device

? = Filesystem Type (You learned this with cfdisk)
?? = Device to mount (e.g. /dev/hdb1)
??? = Where to mount the device (e.g. /mnt/hd)

5) Optional - Edit /etc/fstab

wow! quick reply thankx

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Disk /dev/hdd: 30.7 GB, 30750031872 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3738 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdd1 * 1 31 248976 83 Linux
/dev/hdd2 32 3738 29776477+ 5 Extended
/dev/hdd5 32 3738 29776446 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 113 907641 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 * 114 14596 116334697+ 83 Linux
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10.2 is on the /dev/hda the one i want access to is /dev/hdd.

when i mount /dev/hdd1 i get access to a few undesireable files.
i want access to my media files somewhere on that HD.. i tried mounting "hdd2" and "hdd5" and both fail to do so.

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mount -t reiserfs /dev/hdd2 /mnt/other
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd2,
missing codepage or other error
(aren't you trying to mount an extended partition,
instead of some logical partition inside?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
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some help?

There are three types of partiton Primary, Extended, and Logical. There can only be four Primary partitions. In order to add more partitions, Extended and Logical are used. An Extended partition is not a "real partition". It's a holding place for all Logical partitions. You can't mount an Extended partition (which is exactly what the error message is telling you).

Unfortunately, I can't help much more than that. It appears as though the drive (/dev/hdd) is formatted for LVM (Logical Volume Manager). I've never worked with that before.

There is a post somwhere in the past day or so that deals with an LVM partition...Sorry I can't help much more than that. Not even sure it deals with you issue... You could always search the forum, or, Google it