mount slave drive

[Chris Aitken]

Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Chris Aitken wrote:
>
>> I have a slave hard drive. I have nto got into it since I did a clean 
>> install of fedora 7. I stayed away from it during the installation. I 
>> want to access it now. It contains songs (.ogg). I want to do this 
>> right as I don't have a backup. I backed up all my data before the 
>> installation, but the 10 GB music sdlave drive I never backed up 
>> because my space on the backup computer isn't enough to accommodate 
>> that. I figured if I lost the songs it wouldn't be the end of the 
>> world. But I don't want to lose them. The drive of course is not 
>> listed in /etc/fstab. I don't seem to haev a Hardware Browser (or 
>> somesuch) in fedora 7. Can someone step me through mounting this drive?
>
> Hi Chris.  Use "fdisk -l" as root to see all of the partitions the box 
> thinks it has.  Figure out which one is the one you are interested in.
>
> For argument's take lets say you figure out it is /dev/hdb1.  You can 
> do this:
>
> mkdir /mnt/hdb1
> mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1
[root at p733 chris]# mkdir /bckupdrv
[root at p733 chris]# mount /dev/sdb1 /bckupdrv
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
[root at p733 chris]#

That did not work.

Chris
>
> This is only a temporary solution.  Add an entry in /etc/fstab (back 
> it up first!) and then umount the partition from /mnt/hdb1 and mount 
> it in the correct place.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rob
>

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