On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:45:33 -0500, C. Linus Hicks <lhicks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 17:15 +0000, spamse wrote: > > > > > > i would like to mount my second hard drive > > > > it doesn't show up in the mnt folder > > > > any help would be great > > > > > > You need to create a folder under /mnt before mounting drive eg: > > > /mnt/disk2 and then you mount /dev/hdx /mnt/disk2 > > > > > I have created a directory in /home that I have been manually mounting > > a shared fat32 drive to each time I boot. Would I be better off > > mounting it to a folder in /mnt? > > "Better off" is subjective. It depends on what you want to achieve. If > you care about standards see: > > http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ > > > Also, I added a line to /etc/fstab to mount the drive, as I wanted it > > to mount automatically on boot, but this line does not seem to get > > executed (I was following instructions from a Red Hat site). Is this > > the right place to be putting the mount statement? > > If you want it mounted at system boot time, I can think of two reasons > right away why it won't happen. Except for the root partition, > partitions are mounted in the order in which they appear in fstab. So > for instance, if /home is a separate partition and it gets mounted after > your fat32 partition gets mounted, it won't work. Also, any partition > specified with option "noauto" will not get mounted during boot. Using > the "defaults" option does imply "auto". > > If it's none of the above, have you tried looking > through /var/log/messages to see if any errors are showing up during > mounting partitions? > > By the way, while this is related to the original question, I noticed > that you essentially hijacked an existing thread to ask a different > question. > > ****************************************************************************** i tried to mount the hard drive and i get this message [jim@My_World ~]$ mount /dev/hdb1 mount: can't find /dev/hdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab [jim@My_World ~]$ i opened the fstab file using [jim@My_World ~]$ vi fstab the file is empty the man pages are making me more confused or should i be opening ther fstab file under root ? > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- James Lawrence NY
