Sorry but I am confused. If you add a physycal hard disk, the kernel upon recognizing it will assign a DRIVE id such as /dev/hda for the first IDE drive, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc for the third IDE and so on.
Now, on you /dev/hdc drive you will need some partitions. Each primary partition is called /dev/hdc1 through /dev/hdc4 (extended parts start from /dev/hdc5). You should create the filesystem on one of the partitions, not on the drive e.g. mke2fs /dev/hdc1 Once the partition has a filesystem recognized by the kernel you can mount it at will In your situation mount /dev/hdc1 /data where /data is a mountpoint (a directory on the /dev/hda3 partition's filesystem) under which all the filesystem existing on /dev/hdc1 will appear ... When you see it works allright you can add it to /etc/fstab ... To wrap it up the (usual) hyerarchy is -> DISK 1->n Partition 1<-> 1 Filesystem ... hope this helps. Ciao Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Grover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Cc: "Debian" <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2001 2:16 Subject: Re: Adding Drives > > Ok, I made a dir on hda3 called /data > > I was then able to mount hdc1. > > This has me confused? > > why I need a mount point on hda to get to hdc? > Is there a place I can get more info on mount points, etc etc? > > mike > > > Michael Heldebrant wrote: > > > > On Tue, 2001-10-23 at 23:02, Michael Grover wrote: > > > Does anybody know where I can find info on ading second hard drives? > > > > > > I added the second drive, > > > ran "MAKEDEV hdc" , > > > ran "mke2fs /dev/hdc" , > > > added a entry to the fstab file in the /etc directory. > > > > > > But I can not mount it? > > > > > > fstab line = "/dev/hdc1 /data ext2 defaults 1 1 > > > > > > > > > when I try to mount I get error "mount point data does not exist" > > > > mkdir /data > > > > retry mount and enjoy. > > > > --mike > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
