mounting question,

[shann]

Hi,

Our admin installed a new harddrive for us.


Current file system
/dev/hda1 1.4G 720M 680M 52% /
/dev/hda3 41G 27G 13G 67% /home
none 236M 0 236M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 7.7G 7.0G 390M 95% /usr
/dev/hda5 3.8G 1.9G 1.7G 52% /var

I wanted to make the new harddrive to mouted on

/dev/hda6/ /backup
/dev/hda7 /home2

How could I do this? Please help on this.

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[PWSowner]

First, hda6 is likely already taken. That's probably where your swap drive is.

Second, I may be wrong, but from what I know, the second hard drive can't be /dev/hda. Most are either hdc or hdd.

What you need to do is partition your drive. Here is where I found instructions on this.
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Partition/

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[jphilipson]

Yes, hda is your primary drive, your 2nd drive will be hdc I believe, as hdb would be the master on the second controller if i am not mistaken? You can use "dmesg | grep hdc" or "dmesg | grep hdb" tp see which it is. Now assuming the seconf drive is formatted into one partition lets say its hdc1 and we want it mounted as backup..

So we would

#mkdir /backup
#mount /dev/hdc1 /backup

then edit your fstab file so it gets mounted at boot time also

#pico -w /etc/fstab

add the following line.. (assuming its ext3 filesys)

/dev/hdc1 /backup ext3 defaults 1 2

save and exit

hope that helps ya

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