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elusive-dragon
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 Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:22 am Post subject: question: adding a 2nd hard drive [solved] |
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ok ive added a 2nd hard drive a 120gb Samsung ide drive
the drive is labeled /dev/hdb1 (using fdisk)
set it up as an ext3 partition by doing mk2fs -j /dev/hdb1
my issue is how do i browse this new drive? its mounted on "/" but my main hard drive hda3 is also "/" so i dont know how to view the new drive and start using it.
my fstab is below; note that its all lined up fine in the fstab 
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1
/dev/hdb1 / ext3 noatime 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
Can I edit something here? Or is there a command ive got to do so when system starts up the 2nd drive hdb1 is visible? I wanted to just label it as "storage" or something but ive tried a few things and havent got it yet.
thanks in advance 
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"a waste is a terrible thing to mind"
my system:
Gentoo box
Athlon Xp 2000
512mb pc 133 ram
10gb ide hard drive
120gb Samsung ide drive
3dfx agp video card
built in NIC
Turtle Beach 5.1 USB sound
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masteroftheuniverse
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:38 am Post subject: |
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do NOT mount them both at root. create a mount point anywhere within the / filesystem on hda3 and mount hdb1 there:
mkdir /mnt/hdb1
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
and change the mount point in your fstab to /dev/hdb1
if you mount both to the same place you will see one or the other but not both. hda3 is already your root filesystem so mount that at / and mount the other somewhere underneath that. |
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Nil_Spaar
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 2:40 am Post subject: |
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You shouldn't mount two different drives to the same mountpoint especially not both to "/". The second mount usually hides the first one so if you try to mount hdb1 to "/" you can see your new drive there but can't access your main drive. Did you actually try this? Because I'm curious if it would actually result in what I described or if you would be stopped by some error msg.
Anyway mounting a second partition to "/" is a BadIdea!
You should create a directory (e.g. /mnt/storage) and then mount your new drive into that directory.
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mkdir /mnt/storage
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage
cd /mnt/storage
# you are standing in your new drive now
df -h .
# should tell you how enormously much storage you have here
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In your fstab you should change the "/" in the hdb1 line to "/mnt/storage" so that the above mounting is done automatically at each boot. |
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elusive-dragon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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thank you both for your help!
It seems to be working now, i just added a folder within /mnt and mounted it there....i didnt know it was that easy lol. Linux is so easy sometimes that I dont see whats right in front of me..
I kept getting errors when trying to mount such as "mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/storage " would give me an error that mount point /mnt/storage didnt exist....DUH ME! I just had to create it lol
I learned something so its all good, thanks again.
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"a waste is a terrible thing to mind"
my system:
Gentoo box
Athlon Xp 2000
512mb pc 133 ram
10gb ide hard drive
120gb Samsung ide drive
3dfx agp video card
built in NIC
Turtle Beach 5.1 USB sound |
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elusive-dragon
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| Posted: Fri Apr 22, 2005 11:16 pm Post subject: |
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ok not completely solved yet lol
how do i make my hard drive 2nd one (hdb) change label or mount point ...its currently "/" but my main drive is also "/" how do i change that?
also how do you make the system recognize that drive on bootup?
do i simply update the mtab file or rc.conf or something?
any help would be appreciated! thank you!
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Mike - elusive-dragon
"a waste is a terrible thing to mind"
my system:
Gentoo box
Athlon Xp 2000
512mb pc 133 ram
10gb ide hard drive
120gb Samsung ide drive
3dfx agp video card
built in NIC
Turtle Beach 5.1 USB sound |
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mmiller
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elusive-dragon
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| Posted: Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:32 am Post subject: |
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mmiller - thank you!
I cant believe how simple it was lol I just couldnt figure out how to change things around and it was in front of my face the whole time!!!!
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my system:
Gentoo box
Athlon Xp 2000
512mb pc 133 ram
10gb ide hard drive
120gb Samsung ide drive
3dfx agp video card
built in NIC
Turtle Beach 5.1 USB sound |
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