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SLED10 - temporarily mounting a hard drive

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A_Lizard

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Sep 2, 2006, 5:15:23 AM9/2/06
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I've got a test installation of SLED10 on hda* . I'd like to be able to
temporarily mount an IDE drive - /dev/hdb* on /mnt/workstation .

I was hoping it would come up on the desktop after I plugged the drive in.
It didn't.

When I opened a console, created /mnt/workstation and tried mounting it
using the mount command:

# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/workstation

mount: unknown filesystem type ext3'

# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/workstation

mount: unknown filesystem type ext3'

The problem is not in hdb* , it works just fine.

thanks
A.Lizard

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Niclas Ekstedt

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Sep 2, 2006, 4:25:12 PM9/2/06
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On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:15:23 +0000, A_Lizard wrote:

Are you able to access the secondary IDE disk at all?
You can try using FDisk 'cfdisk /dev/hdb'

It might be that your secondary IDE disk isn't /dev/hdb.
That might just be your IDE CD-ROM drive.


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A_Lizard

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Sep 2, 2006, 5:02:37 PM9/2/06
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On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 20:25:12 +0000, Niclas Ekstedt wrote:

> On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 09:15:23 +0000, A_Lizard wrote:
>
> Are you able to access the secondary IDE disk at all?

Certainly, but not from the SLED10 hda* drive.

/dev/hdb is my primary workstation drive, I'm using it right now from
my Fedora Core 3 installation. /dev/hda* is the test drive I'm using to
check out SLED10.

> You can try using FDisk 'cfdisk /dev/hdb'

I'll check into this, thanks.

> It might be that your secondary IDE disk isn't /dev/hdb.
> That might just be your IDE CD-ROM drive.

No, that's /dev/hdc . /dev/hdd is the mobile rack. (not plugged
in unless there's a backup in progress, and the other reason I want to get
temporary drive mounting working)

Niclas Ekstedt

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Sep 2, 2006, 7:28:53 PM9/2/06
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On Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:02:37 +0000, A_Lizard wrote:

> No, that's /dev/hdc . /dev/hdd is the mobile rack. (not plugged in
> unless there's a backup in progress, and the other reason I want to get
> temporary drive mounting working)

OK, just wanted to make sure.

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