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Johnyp
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 Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 1:59 am Post subject: Adding a partition and mounting another drive |
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Hey all
I have a gentoo box with 2 disks in it. One of the disks has a formated partition that has not been mounted yet.
Second drive also contains a formated parition (both Reiserfs). How can i get them both to come up and be usable?
I don't quite understand the whole - mounting (i guess that's what it's called) concept and what's involved in it.
thanks all!
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greasy_grasshopper
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There are a lot of tutorials on the Internet about mounting partitions in Linux. You can search them using a search engine easily. Here's one from a simple search: http://rtfm.dyndns.info/tips/2003/06/01/16.shtml
The whole idea is that we want to associate a partition on your hard drive with a branch of your filesystem. The filesystem is seperate from your partition table. |
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gesiel
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Location: Brasil - Rio de Janeiro
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I use 4 partitions an same disk. For questions of security I put /home on separate partition. My scheme in /etc/fstab is:
| Code: | /dev/hda1 /boot
/dev/hda2 /swap
/dev/hda3 /
/dev/hda4 /home |
I moved all files in /home (/dev/hda3) to /home (/dev/hda4).
works ok!
Ok, I know: your case is different. Make this:
put more one line in your fstab:
| Code: | | /dev/hdb1 /mydir reiserfs noatime 0 1 |
note: /dev/hdb1 is your secound hard drive.
enjoy  |
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