>From the error message, it sounds as if you never did a "mkdir /usr2".
In order to mount a block device (like a disk) to a mount point (a
directory, such as /usr2) the mount point must exist.
Of course, to mount the device, it must already be formatted and
have a valid filesystem on it.
Here's the quick and dirty stuff on mounting....
the general command line stuff looks like..
mount -t <type> <device> <mount point>
<type> is the filesystem type
<device> is the device file, /dev/hdb1 in your case
<mount point> is where you want to mount /dev/hdb1, which is /usr2
take a look at your fstab file. and chack the man pages for mount and
fstab. also, remember to unmount, use "umount" not "uNmount". There
is no "uNmount" command.
Bryan Scaringe
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Dave
>
