How Do I Add a Second SCSI Drive

[Dallas Helquist]

mount /dev/sdb1 /<mountpoint> (/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" <stevepc2000@home.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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.
>
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