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HI, trying to add a second hard drive to my Lycoris installation. the drive
is recognised by bios and can be fdisked and formatted ok by DOS.
Following a tutorial at the Lycoris website, I have edited the fstab, adding
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 defaults 2 1 (the disk is slave on primary IDE)
The next step is supposed to be test the drive will mount by entering
#mount /mnt/hdb1 but this returns #mount: mount point /mnt/hdb1 does not
exist
I read the mount and fstab man pages but cannot see where I'm going wrong.
Any ideas, please?

pete wrote:

> HI, trying to add a second hard drive to my Lycoris installation. the
> drive is recognised by bios and can be fdisked and formatted ok by DOS.
> Following a tutorial at the Lycoris website, I have edited the fstab,
> adding /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 defaults 2 1 (the disk is slave on primary
> IDE) The next step is supposed to be test the drive will mount by entering
> #mount /mnt/hdb1 but this returns #mount: mount point /mnt/hdb1 does not
> exist
> I read the mount and fstab man pages but cannot see where I'm going wrong.
> Any ideas, please?

Hi,
create the mount point (as a directory) first. Try this:

mkdir /mnt/hdb1
mount /mnt/hdb1

Allistar.

"Allistar" <> wrote in message
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> pete wrote:
>
> > HI, trying to add a second hard drive to my Lycoris installation. the
> > drive is recognised by bios and can be fdisked and formatted ok by DOS.
> > Following a tutorial at the Lycoris website, I have edited the fstab,
> > adding /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 defaults 2 1 (the disk is slave on
primary
> > IDE) The next step is supposed to be test the drive will mount by
entering
> > #mount /mnt/hdb1 but this returns #mount: mount point /mnt/hdb1 does
not
> > exist
> > I read the mount and fstab man pages but cannot see where I'm going
wrong.
> > Any ideas, please?
>
> Hi,
> create the mount point (as a directory) first. Try this:
>
> mkdir /mnt/hdb1
> mount /mnt/hdb1
>
> Allistar.

thanks Allistar, that worked. I can now see both drives when running
KDiskFree, but the second drive doesn't show up in "My Linux System" (If
you're not familiar with Lycoris, this is directly equivalent to "My
Computer" in Windows)
Maybe after a reboot..
Peter

On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 00:04:25 +1300, pete wrote:

> thanks Allistar, that worked. I can now see both drives when running
> KDiskFree, but the second drive doesn't show up in "My Linux System" (If
> you're not familiar with Lycoris, this is directly equivalent to "My
> Computer" in Windows)

I know nothing about Lycoris, but strictly speaking it probably
won't/shouldn't show up.

Unix filesystems have no concept of different drives as such, filesystems
are mounted into a single unified tree and the user isn't aware those
directories are from different drives.

Frankly the sooner Windows drops the drive letter (ie multiple directory
trees) idea the better IMO. NTFS has had the capability for mounting in a
directory for ages, technically it's just support of legacy software
stopping it happening.

Directory layout and filesystem management are two different concepts, and
should be abstracted away from each other.

Cheers
Anton

"techie" wrote
> I hear Microsoft's about to change "My Computer" to "Bill's Computer".

heh, oh-no, thats not funny.

pete wrote:

>
> "Allistar" <> wrote in message
> news:OCSfb.6299$...
>> pete wrote:
>>
>> > HI, trying to add a second hard drive to my Lycoris installation. the
>> > drive is recognised by bios and can be fdisked and formatted ok by DOS.
>> > Following a tutorial at the Lycoris website, I have edited the fstab,
>> > adding /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 defaults 2 1 (the disk is slave on
> primary
>> > IDE) The next step is supposed to be test the drive will mount by
> entering
>> > #mount /mnt/hdb1 but this returns #mount: mount point /mnt/hdb1 does
> not
>> > exist
>> > I read the mount and fstab man pages but cannot see where I'm going
> wrong.
>> > Any ideas, please?
>>
>> Hi,
>> create the mount point (as a directory) first. Try this:
>>
>> mkdir /mnt/hdb1
>> mount /mnt/hdb1
>>
>> Allistar.
>
> thanks Allistar, that worked. I can now see both drives when running
> KDiskFree, but the second drive doesn't show up in "My Linux System" (If
> you're not familiar with Lycoris, this is directly equivalent to "My
> Computer" in Windows)
> Maybe after a reboot..
> Peter

Glad to hear it worked. I am not familiar with Lycoris, is there some sort
of properties dialog for the "My Linux System" thing?

Mounting into a unified tree structure is handy. I mount remote drives quite
a bit (over a VPN connection to the office, also running Linux). Not too
much different from sharing drives in Windows except without the need for a
"drive mapping" as such (just a mount point).

Allistar.

On Sun, 05 Oct 2003 04:04:25 -0700, pete wrote:


> (If you're not familiar with Lycoris, this is directly equivalent to
> "My Computer" in Windows)

I hear Microsoft's about to change "My Computer" to "Bill's Computer".

this quote is from techie of Mon, 06 Oct 2003 18:59 :
>
> I hear Microsoft's about to change "My Computer" to "Bill's Computer".

only after you "upgrade" to Longhorn