mount slave drive

[Chris Aitken]

Tyler Aviss wrote:
> I'm going to assume that the drive is an IDE. Here are your standard
> IDE drive designations in linux:
>
> Primary Master /dev/hda
> Primary Slave /dev/hdb
> Secondary Master /dev/hdc
> Secondary Slave /dev/hdd
>
> Assuming that your data is on the first partition of the primary
> slave, you would use
>
> mount /dev/hdb1 /some/place/to/mount
> (the place you are mounting to must already exist)
>   
[root at p733 chris]# mkdir /bckupdrv
mkdir: cannot create directory `/bckupdrv': File exists
[root at p733 chris]# mount /dev/sdb1 /bckupdrv
mount: special device /dev/sdb1 does not exist
[root at p733 chris]#

Didn't work.

Chris

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