How to mount another hard drive...

[Dfyant]

9.0....

I will try again tonight....but in the event it doesn't work...is there an alternative way I can do it?

[flw]

Also who are you logged in as? If a reg. user then try logging in as "root" with roots profile and give another whirl. i.e "su - " after logging in as a user.

[sarumont]

Lol....linux ppl are funny...haha

Who you callin' funny?

dog....or dawg? 'pends on da street speak y'use..

Dog with a Jerseyish accent.

[Dfyant]

Ok, I got it!

Here's what I had to do:

in the /mnt dir I created a folder called hdb1 and hda5 (represents each hdd and/or partition) and then edited the fstab with the following entry:

/dev/hda5 /dev/hda5 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /dev/hdb1 vfat defaults 0 0


then, in a terminal session, mount these two with this command:

mount -a /dev/hda5
mount -a /dev/hdb1

...and it works!

I have created a "New Launch" on my desktop to be able to access those drives easily!

Thanks for all your help!!

Chris

[jjmac]

Howdy Dfyant,

The -a switch will mount all drives of
type, which may not be always required.

man mount and man fstab will provide a
lot of usefull info on the topic, as
mount can take a number of switches as
can the lines in fstab, ie;

<dev> /home ext2 errors=remount-ro 0 2

Good for a fs to be mounted at boot on
the root fs.

<dev> /mnt/dosc vfat
users,exec,dev,rw,noauto 0 0

Also good for a manual mount as needed,
ie; mount -t vfat <dev> <mount>

or from my user accout...

mount /mnt/dosc

The 'users' cmd line para allows for
quick mounting by users, as long as
there's a mention in the fstab file.

The two man pages are well worth a read



jm