On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Lambermont, David wrote:
> Over the weekend I performed a Redhat 5.1 EVERYTHING install. After
> installing StarOffice and several other packages, the limits of the 900
> Meg partition I configured are being challenged.
>
> I have attempted to add a second drive (1.2 Gig IDE) and I'm having no
> luck getting it mounted. This is what I did (as best I can recall):
>
> Used fdisk to create a single Linux Native partition on /dev/hdb1
> Used the GUI file system tool to format the drive as ext2
> Used the GUI tool to set the mount point as /usr2
>
> I looked at /etc/fstab and the mount information is there. During
> bootup, I see an error message something like:
> "mount error -- /usr2 does not exist" (can't remember exact error).
>
/usr2 must be an existing directory. In Linux (and UNIX in general),
filesystems are mounted in directories.
> I'd like to do this over again from scratch, preferably without the aid
> of the GUI tools. Can someone give me a quick and dirty lesson on
> partitioning/formatting/filesystem/mounting process? The way I SHOULD
> have done it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dave
>
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>
Frank
