slave drive mounting where?

[Chris Aitken]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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 /bckupdrv/* /mnt/
> umount /mnt
> echo "/dev/sdb1 /bckupdrv 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.
>   
Everything worked just like you said it would. I checked /etc/fstab - 
it's fine. Thanks - you gave me 4% of my primary hard disk space back.

:)

Chris

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