[H-GEN] newbie-mounting a second hard drive.

Jay johannes at workmail.com
Fri Aug 9 23:08:10 EDT 2002


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On Sat, 10 Aug 2002 14:23, Annerley Al wrote:
> So can some kind soul please tell me the corresponding mantra for mounting
> a second hard drive?
> I have tried variations  like   /mnt/hda1  and /dev/hda without any
> success, or much in the way of comprehension either.

You have to have a mount point you can mount against.

1) mkdir /mnt/hda1
     creates a directory in /mnt you will use as mount point

2) mount [-t type] /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1
     does the actual mount. You might need to specify the type.

That's all there is to it.

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