Add/Mount second hard drive

o'neill · 2010-07-02 11:15:15

hey guys,

I have a SSD, where my arch lives, and a normal hard disk, where I've stored my data.
But unfortunately I can't access it.

I can see it in /dev but how can I mount it?

thanks

graysky · 2010-07-02 11:26:30

Ultra newbie, but we all learned some time. Have you partitioned the 2nd HDD yet? If so what filesystems did you use? Post the output of 'fdisk -l'

As an aside, you might wanna read through this wiki article to keep your SSD healthy and happy.

Last edited by graysky (2010-07-02 16:38:36)

o'neill · 2010-07-02 12:25:21

I'm using on both hard disks ext4.

Here is the output:

Not needed ^^

Thanks for the SSD-Link. I didn't know that SSDs have limited write/read
I try to make the I/Os lesser

Last edited by o'neill (2010-07-02 12:34:26)

hokasch · 2010-07-02 12:32:07

Read "man mount". You can obmit -t for most filesystems. If you want to have a partition mounted on startup, add an entry to [wiki]fstab[/wiki].

P.S.: depending on your Desktop Envirnoment, your disks should show up automatically, e.g. in Nautilus for gnome.

Last edited by hokasch (2010-07-02 12:34:00)

o'neill · 2010-07-02 12:36:43

Ah, thanks!

hokasch wrote:

P.S.: depending on your Desktop Envirnoment, your disks should show up automatically, e.g. in Nautilus for gnome.

I just have awesome3, with no filemanager, which I don't need

Thanks again!

Mr.Elendig · 2010-07-02 12:45:28

If it's an internal disc, just mount it permanently in fstab

See 'man fstab' for details.

graysky · 2010-07-02 13:48:52

o'neill wrote:

I'm using on both hard disks ext4.
Here is the output:
Not needed ^^

???

Posting to the newbie corner means making assumptions can be detrimental to the user asking for help which is why I asked to see your partition setup. It baffles me why you won't post the output to facilitate a more educated guess from me and others. Did you mean to come off as a smart-ass or am I misunderstanding this reply?

Last edited by graysky (2010-07-02 13:49:24)

o'neill · 2010-07-02 14:55:53

I'm sorry.

I wrote the output (see my edit), but I thought you ignore it, so I removed it.

Here is the output again:

Platte /dev/sda: 80.0 GByte, 80026361856 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 9729 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00067ea4

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/sda2              14          46      265072+  82  Linux Swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3              47        1003     7687102+  83  Linux
/dev/sda4            1004        9729    70091595   83  Linux

Platte /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GByte, 1000204886016 Byte
255 Köpfe, 63 Sektoren/Spur, 121601 Zylinder
Einheiten = Zylinder von 16065 × 512 = 8225280 Bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c34da

   Gerät  boot.     Anfang        Ende     Blöcke   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1      121601   976760001   83  Linux

Mr.Elendig wrote:

If it's an internal disc, just mount it permanently in fstab

Yeah it's an internal disc. I read the manual about fstab, but I couldn't find a solution

Here is my fstab:

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
devpts                 /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
shm                    /dev/shm      tmpfs     nodev,nosuid        0      0

#/dev/cdrom             /media/cd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd               /media/dvd  auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/fd0               /media/fl   auto    user,noauto             0      0

UUID=33c90b36-ded6-4cc6-be81-b825c3770fa2 / ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=b46aeca7-107e-411d-857b-9ee50d53e46a /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=f2851ccf-012c-47b9-816e-e853790d8434 /home ext4 defaults 0 1
UUID=f6a841fe-4d3e-4879-9b06-e3d20cf50d01 swap swap defaults 0 0

where can I get the UUID from /dev/sdb?

Last edited by o'neill (2010-07-02 14:59:53)

graysky · 2010-07-02 15:48:01

OK!

1) Make a mount point with the mkdir command (as root) - contemporary thought is to place it under /media for anywhere is fine
2) Add an fstab entry
3) mount it as root

To answer your question, one way is to:

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

I would highly encourage all new users to search around in google for common stuff like this; a simple query give multiple hits on the first page.

Mr.Elendig · 2010-07-02 16:20:01

o'neill wrote:

Yeah it's an internal disc. I read the manual about fstab, but I couldn't find a solution

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Per … ice_naming

Same syntax as your other partions.

UUID=something /some/where somefs defaults 0 1

You can also use LABEL instead of UUID if you want something more human readable.

williamkray · 2010-11-15 14:17:06

Alright, I have an issue and I thought I would tack it onto here rather than make a new thread because it would be unneccessary.

I've edited my fstab and my disk mounts alright on boot, but i cant access anything on it unless I'm root. And I don't want to need root to listen to my music.

I've chmod the directory I'm mounting to, I've tried different locations, I added rw and users to the fstab entry. I don't know what I'm doing wrong.

jdarnold · 2010-11-15 14:40:38

No, you really should create a new topic - don't raise dead topics back up. And it isn't even the same problem.

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