According to Lambermont, David: While burning my CPU.
>
> 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).
>
> 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?
Well presuming your second drive is the primary slave it will be /dev/hdb,
knowing this you could mount it with an entry in /etc/fstab as follows.
/dev/hdb1 /slack ext2 defaults 0 0
On your Primary drive /dev/hda(number) where number is a mounted partition
you will need a mountpoint (directory) called /slack it will can be seen
(when mounted) with 'df' as
/dev/hdb1 991335 309547 630571 33% /slack
Of course the numbers will all be different, the above is data from my
system.
To explane what i have and how i use it, i have 2 disks hda and hdb i have
slakware 3.4 (hdb1)
redhat 4.2 (hda2 3 swap 4 usr)
redhat 5.0 (hdb6)
suse !! (hdb5)
debian 1.2 (hdb2)
I can boot which ever i like using lilo.
All this is meant as a pointer for you, considering i have no explanation
about-
"Now when I cd to /usr2, I see a lost+found directory, so something is
there. But, when I type "mount" or "df," /usr2 does not appear with my
other mounted drives. Am I still missing something?"
I must be missing something somehwere.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dave
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Regards Richard.
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