From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 26 19:45:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 400B037B405 for ; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:45:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA36899; Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:45:53 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:45:53 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Coder Arkade Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mounting Hardrive In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Organization: SaskNow Technologies [www.sasknow.com] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Coder Arkade wrote to freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG: > Hi! Hi! > I have installed FreeBSD 4.3 and im happy with my choise BUT i have > one problem. my other hardrive (Secondary Master on IDE) has not been > mounted, and i have no clue how i am going to findout what the > hardrive is called in the /dev directory if you guys could help me > with that i would be a very happy computer-geek > > (could be good to know : i use the command "mount -d /dev/whatever > /mnt/whatever" and if thats not the way to do it, please tell me how i > should do) You probably don't want to use -d, as that does everything except mount the drive ;-) (In other words, the -d flag is used for testing purposes). To mount a UFS/FFS partition on an ATA/EIDE HDD, something like /sbin/mount /dev/ad0s1a is typical, provided the disk has already been partitioned and labelled. If not, you are probably best off to run /stand/sysinstall to have it step you through the process if you are new to the UNIX filesystem. What you will need to know is the unit, partition and slice of the filesystem you wish to mount. In FreeBSD 4.3, look in /dev for files named ad?s??. The filesystems on the disk you want may be something like ad0s2[a,c,d,..]. Sysinstall can help you with this, too--make a note of which device it refers to. Once you have verified that the filesystem will mount, you will likely want to add an entry to the filesystem table, /etc/fstab so that the filesystem mounts on boot. Hope this helps, - Ryan > > /Thanks Arkade > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Ryan Thompson Network Administrator, Accounts SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com #106-380 3120 8th St E - Saskatoon, SK - S7H 0W2 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-1161 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message