[PLUG] mounting hdb1

Bruce Kilpatrick bakilpatrick at verizon.net
Mon Jan 16 04:57:38 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 20:47 -0800, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Sunday 15 January 2006 19:47, Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
> > I have a new install of Ubuntu 5.10 and I can't figure out the proper
> > terminology to mount hdb1.  hdb1 is the hard drive with a install of
> > SUSE 10 and I would like to be able to copy some files to Ubuntu on
> > hda1.  When I add hdb1 to fstab, it forgets that hda1 is where we are
> > supposed to be and won't let me even run a program due to the path being
> > wrong now.
> >
> > # /etc/fstab: static file system information.
> > #
> > # <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
> > proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
> > /dev/hda1       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
> > 1
> > #/dev/hdb1      /home           reiserfs        user,noauto
> > /dev/hda5       none            swap    sw              0       0
> > /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> > /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom1   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> > #/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
> >
> >
> > Above is the current fstab.
> >
> 
> You need to give hdb1 its own directory, not shared by anything else. Try 
> this:
> 
> /dev/hdb1      /home/suse10          reiserfs        defaults,user,noauto  0   
> 0

Is there an easy way to get to that hard drive to add the directory
without several reboots?




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