slave drive mounting where?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:44:55PM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> [root at p733 chris]# mount /dev/sdb1 /bckupdrv
> [root at p733 chris]# df /dev/sdb1
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdb1              9614116    168624   8957120   2% /bckupdrv
> 
> Oh, now that's better...
> 
> So, I guess the partition is there on the slave drive - it just needs a 
> mount command so that it will mount /bckupdrv (?)
> 
> So, I just manually add the line to /etc/fstab?
> 
> I guess what I've been calling the "gui partitioner" did make the 
> partition, but it did not mount /bckupdrv, but since /bckupdrv exists as 
> a directory (under /) when I save .ogg's to it they are just saving to 
> /dev/sda. Hence, my primary hard drive filling up.

So you could do:
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
mv /backupdrv/* /mnt/
umount /mnt
echo "/dev/sdb1 /backupdrv ext3 defaults 0 1" >> /etc/fstab
mount -a

That should mount the drive temporarily as /mnt, move the files that
should have gone to it, onto it, then unmount it, then append a line to
/etc/fstab for the drive, then mount all filesystems listed in fstab.

This of course assuming you used ext3 as your filesystem, otherwise
substitute whatever you used.  Not that I can think of a better choice
of filesystem than ext3 at this time.

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Len Sorensen
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