mount /dev/sdb1 / (/mnt/newdisk, /home /whatever/you/want) And to have it do it automagicly, take a loot at the /etc/fstab file and add the entry mimicking one of the others there. -dallas ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve" To: Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 11:22 PM Subject: How Do I Add a Second SCSI Drive > How do I add a second SCSI drive to my RedHat 7.1 Server? Here is what I've > done so far: > 1: Physically added the drive, in DMESG it shows as "SCSI device sdb: > 17942584 512-byte hdwr sectors <9187 MB> sdb: sdb1 > 2: I ran cfdisk /dev/sdb and created a new primary partition that was not > bootable and then issued a Write in cfdisk and used the entire 9187mb. > 3: I rebooted the system and after the system was back up I issued a > "mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1" > 4: After the mkfs command completed I entered "fsck -f -y /dev/sda1" > 5: Now per the books instructions "Essential System Administration" from > O'Reilly I should have been able to mount the disk. When I issued a "mount > /dev/sdb1" I receive an error message stating "mount: can't find /dev/sdb > in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. > I don't really understand why it's not being added to the /etc/fstab or > /etc/mtab files. Is this something I have to do manually? Also when > creating a file system, should a label be given, for example /usr or /tmp? > > Any advice or documentation would be greatly appreciated. > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss