Can you help me mount a second hard drive

[Liam]

I have a second hard drive in my new Kubuntu Dapper 6.06 machine. When I go to storage media I can see it next to the icon of my second slave hard drive but it is not mounted.

The hard drive is the old main drive from my old Dapper 6.06 machine. I have reloaded Dapper on to the main drive and installed the old drive so that I can read some files from it. (unfortunately the CPU in my old PC necessitating the build up of a new machine and the need to grab some files from this old hard drive.

When I right mouse click on it to try to mount it I get the error message.

mount: can't find /dev/hdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Please check that the device is plugged correctly.

I am assuming it is plugged in correctly as I got the shop to do this when they built up the machine.

In 'Disk & Filesystems - system settings' I can see the hard drive and it's partitions listed. but no 'type' is shown next to each partition and there is no 'enabled' icon next to any of the partitions.

When I go into administrator mode all the options are greyed out.

When I nano /etc/fstab the drive is not listed

Do I need to add something here and if so what?

Any helps gratefully appreciated.

[pulpfile]

Re: Can you help me mount a second hard drive

Well, good luck! I'm having my own headaches with fstab right now.
It shows up as "Disabled" under System Settings > Disks & Filesystems, right?

You have to do a
sudo mkdir /mnt/drive2
(or whatever you want to call the second drive.)
Then
sudo nano /etc/fstab
and then write a new line for the new drive.
If it's /dev/hdb1, then I think it should be
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/drive2 ext3 auto,user 0 0

(Note that it is "auto"comma"user", with NO space in between.)
There's a tutorial on fstab here.
Hope that helps!

[aysiu]

Re: Can you help me mount a second hard drive

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/mountlinux may help.

[nilsA]

Re: Can you help me mount a second hard drive

Well, I just succeeded - but had to use an old Windows startup diskette.

My guess is your hard disk is not formated, so there is no file system. I know there are ways to do this in Linux; it just didn't work for me.

So, I booted from the diskette, used fdisk to make sure the partitioning was right, and then restarted, formated the disk, and there it was, ready to mount by the graphical interface, as you did try.

(Actrually, I made two partitons, one with Win98 and one Win2000.)