Unable to mount 2nd HDD

[emGo]

I'm a new Linux user. I've worked with it some but not enough to feel comfortable with it. I've searched google beyond belief trying to find help, but haven't had much success.

Currently I am trying to set up a Fedora/Samba File Server, not having much luck though. My workstation is showing up in the Active Directory but I'm not able to access the folders from the Windows machines. I was trying to put a 2nd HDD in the Fedora box and just use that drive for the file storage. Unfortunately I'm having issues mounting my 2nd drive.


System Specs:

Fedora 7 (latest updates applied)
Dell Dimension 2400
P4 2.6GHz
1G DDR 400MHz
on board video


The second drive shows up in the bios and it is listed in the fdisk output.

fdisk -l

[root@arora ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 10011 80308935 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 4462 35840983+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/sdb2 4463 4724 2104515 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 4463 4724 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris


I want the 40G drive (/dev/sdb) to be the storage location (basically the network share).

when I type "df" the 40G drive doesn't show up:

[root@arora ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
73G 3.4G 66G 5% /
/dev/sda1 99M 19M 76M 20% /boot
tmpfs 505M 0 505M 0% /dev/shm

when i try to mount it, I get this error:

[root@arora ~]# mount /dev/sdb
mount: can't find /dev/sdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab


i noticed that I get an AUTOMOUNT error on boot up, but don't know where to look at the logs.
Thanks for your help.

emGo

[gthill]

when i try to mount it, I get this error:

[root@arora ~]# mount /dev/sdb
mount: can't find /dev/sdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab


i noticed that I get an AUTOMOUNT error on boot up, but don't know where to look at the logs.
Thanks for your help.

emGo


You need to provide a mount point
try
[root@arora ~]# mount /dev/sdb /mnt

edit: next post is right, that shows the folly of cut and paste

[root@arora ~]# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

[FriedChips]

when mounting your drive you need to be specific on which partition to mount. for example

sda1 not sda. sdb3 not sdb

[emGo]

the [root@arora ~]# mount /dev/sdb /mnt did the trick. It doesn't stay when i reboot though.

[dominik1261011]

Try this:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f7.html#ntfs

You can find there how to mount your devices permanently (they will stay after booting)..

[emGo]

Try this:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f7.html#ntfs

You can find there how to mount your devices permanently (they will stay after booting)..



Great thanks for the help!!