mount drive?

[virtuoso]

How do I mount a hard disk on a server? I've never done this before to be honest. How do I know "where it is" or what directory, ie "/backup" or such to mount to? Please explain.
How do I see all disks on the server, their full info?

Thanks
- newbie -

specs:
cpanel/whm
centos 3.3

[dylunio]

To mount a drive use

mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1

Replace /dev/hda1 with the drive name and /mnt/hda1 with the mount location you want to use.
Usally you mount your hadrdisk in /mnt/[directerory];

hope this helps;
dylunio

[virtuoso]

Thanks for your reply, but how do I know what the name is?
How do I know what directory to mount it to?

[virtuoso]

I'm using IDE. This is what whm's server info shows (before mount)

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3 75G 3.4G 68G 5% /
/dev/hda1 99M 14M 80M 15% /boot
none 498M 0 498M 0% /dev/shm

[dylunio]

I'm not sure how to find out the drivename, but if its a new second hard drive it will be ether /dev/hdb or /dev/hdb1 I'm not sure,
Mount it anyware you want, usuly you mount things in /mnt/[something], if /mnt dosen't exist try

mkdir /mnt

as root, and to create [something] do

mkdir /mnt/[something]

replaceing something with your choich of name, like backup. o'r John's music.

dylunio

[virtuoso]

root@server [~]# mount /dev/hdb1 /backup
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

?

[dylunio]

Have you formated the drive since it's brand new? It might need this to mount, but I'm afraid I don't know how to format a hdd,

dylunio

[virtuoso]

No, I have not yet. But hopefully someone will help

[UgoDeschamps]

if you didnt format your drive,

perform this command
fdisk -l
that will give you the hd* (* = number) of the Hard Drive you want to format

then as ROOT
perform this command
mkfs /dev/hd*
this will format the drive

Post any other question regarding your issue if needed

[virtuoso]

I think I have to mount before format correct?

By the way, this is a secondary 80GB drive for the server.