how to mount hard disks

[andersjc1]

I am new to linux. I have been reading a few tutorials on how to mount hard disks, but my efforts bare no success. I am creating a massive backup server for my tens of thousands of high resolution photos. My setup consists of four 500gb hard disks as well as one 14 gig boot hard disk. I am running an old 450mhz p2 and 128 megs of ram.... soon to be upgraded to 256. I would like to mount each disk to a separate directory "/backup/drive1" and then drive2,3, and 4. I understand that mounting disks involves use of the terminal. Is there a nice simple guide that can show me how to do this? Thanks for any help!

[Seve]

Hello:
It is not very hard to do, once you get the hang of it:
Here is a vanilla example with some further references for reading.

Things that you need to know in advance are:
The files system type , ext3,xfs,vfat etc.
The access options you wish to grant to the users
The name of the device , /dev/sdxN /dev/hdxN etc.
http://www.ss64.com/bash/fdisk.html

Assume the following for this vanilla example:

Device = /dev/hdxN
Filesystem = FAT32
Mountpoint = /mnt/disk1
Options = read/write available to all users,files system will not be backed up or checked

Step1
You need to create a mount point for each drive. This is really a separate directory for each device [drive] you want to mount.

mkdir /mnt/disk1
creates a mount point named /mnt/disk1
http://www.ss64.com/bash/mkdir.html

Step2
Then to manually mount the drive
mount -t vfat /dev/hdxN /mnt/disk1
This will mount /dev/hdxN at the location /mnt/disk1 with system default options only.

Step3
To automate the mounting of this drive you can add an entry to your /etc/fstab file
http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man5/fstab.5.html

/dev/hdxN /mnt/disk1 vfat users,defaults,umask=000 0 0

In addition to the options laid out it the mount MAN Page , there are some FC specific options, which you can read more about here : http://forum.fedoraforum.org/showthr...ighlight=Mount

When you reboot the system the device [/dev/hdxN]will be mounted at /mnt/disk1 during the boot process.

Seve