Adding Hard Drive

[1slorunner]

I have 2 HDD's on one controller. The first HDD I use for OS and the second HDD is for personal storage. I recently reinstalled FC4 on the first HDD, I formatted the partition and installed the OS. All is fine except I need to access my files located on the second HDD. The second HDD is formatted with ext3. Can someone assist me with what commands I need to use to get the HDD mounted so I can access my files. I want to be able to have the HDD mount automatically. I can't format the HDD, I have files on it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!

[SuperNu]

This is very easy to do. First, as root, you should type mount /dev/hdXY -t ext3 /mnt/directory. You must change X to the correct drive (b for second on primary ide controller, etc) and Y for partition number (1, 2, etc). Also, /mnt/directory must exist and you can change it to anything you like. If your drive mounts properly, then you can edit /etc/fstab. The proper format is device mount point file system type options fs_freq (used for dumping filesystem) and fs_passno (used by fsck). So, you would add /dev/hdb1 /mnt/directory ext3 defaults 1 2 to /etc/fstab and your drive should mount at system boot.

--SN

[1slorunner]

SN --
Thanks for the help! Worked like a champ.