On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 13:36, umberto rossi wrote: > Now comes the new problem. The fdisk -l command told me the second hard > disk is called hdb1 (I mean the part of the HD where the data are). It > also told me that the external HD is called sda or something like that. > But when I issue the mount command for the hdb1 I receive a message that > tells me that the hdb1 device does not exist in the etc/fstab and > etc/mtab files. The syntax I used is: > > mount dev/hdb1 /home/berto/ubik > > ubik being a folder I created for the second HD. > > Is there a mistake in my command syntax, or should I directly edit the > fstab file? I understand doing that ain't that simple, though... You need the leading / on /dev/hdb1 to make it an absolute path. If you give both the partition and mount point in the command the entry does not have to exist in fstab/mtab. The error message is slightly misleading but if you did have such an entry, you'd only have to specify one or the other in the mount command. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
