Second Hard drive in FC2

[Red10]

Right Guys,

I installed a second hard drive in my Linux box, it´s the primary slave, /dev/hdb, FC2 sees it in Hardware Browser but not as a drive i can access how do i access it? do i need to mount the volume? or should it detect and mount automatically?

Cheers

Dan.

[ikonia]

you need to partition it, you access the partitions not the drive

eg: fdisk /dev/hdb

keystrokes are

n (create new partition)
p (primary)
start cylinder 1
end $X
w (write)
quit (quit)

then format it - for example with ext2

mke2fs /dev/hdb1 (note the 1 as there is now a partition on hdb)

mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt

ls -la /mnt

your good to go.

you can use other tools like disk druid, partition magic etc etc, and use any file system or swap if you want.

I just use that as an example.

Basically you need to access partition on the disk not the native device for the whole disk

[Red10]

Yes, i sort of worked out how to do it from reading manuals - however, i appreciate your reply as it confirms what i need to do, what is the ls -la /mnt command for?

[ikonia]

ls -la /mnt shows that the file system is mounted on /mnt and can be read

[Red10]

Ok cheers, for that, just one question, why hasn´t FC2 autodetected and mounted it??

[ikonia]

no idea, I wasn't aware that fc or redhat autdetected and mounted

[directhex]

you may find QTparted a little nicer to use than fdisk && mkfs.whatever - though i don';t know if fedora comes with it

[Red10]

no idea, I wasn't aware that fc or redhat autdetected and mounted

From what i´ve read and been told it should, anyway, it doesn´t so i will do as i have been recommended..

Cheers Guys


Dan.

[Red10]

you may find QTparted a little nicer to use than fdisk && mkfs.whatever - though i don';t know if fedora comes with it

Good call, it doesn´t come with parted, but i can get hold of it..

Cheers

[Red10]

erm.....neither cfdisk nor fdisk work at the terminal prompt?! Help!

[directhex]

as root? it's always possible redhat have helpfully not bothered with them

[Red10]

as root? it's always possible redhat have helpfully not bothered with them

Yep, even as root, it´s not there.... any other ideas? having trouble getting parted to work...

[ikonia]

can you not install fdisk,

Here is a link to the source rpm for redhat boxes

ftp://195.220.108.108/linux/ultrapen...-2.5-1.src.rpm

[Red10]

i couldn´t install fdisk, so i used parted instead, i resized the drive and created the following:

Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-32253.537 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 32253.046 extended lba

what do i need to do now?

i try mount /dev/hdb /mnt and get the following:

mount /dev/hdb /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type

[ikonia]

I think you need to go and read my first post, you suggested you knew what you where doing with this.

You need to mount the partition - put a file system on it, then mount it

so hdb1 is hard disk 2 - partition 1.

At the moment this won't have a filesystem on it, so you need to create one, ext2/3, resiserfs, anything really ???

eg: mke2fs /dev/hdb1

now you can mount it

[Red10]

ikonia, i knew what i needed and wanted to do, it was the fact that i was using parted - i wasn´t using the correct command, i omitted the ext2 ¨bit¨ when using the mkpart command, so i was effectively making a partition with no FS, hence when i tried to mount the drive in /mnt i got an error... i went back added this and it works...


cheers