second hard drive

[manther]

hey, I'm using Libranet, because I wanted Debian with an installer and I heard this was good, I've been using Linux for a few months, or trying to anyway, and I've tried a bunch. I started with Mandrake 9.2 and liked it for the most part, but I wanted to get into it more, so I wanted something else, and this is what I chose. Anyway, when I installed it added the windows partition that I have on my hard drive that this is installed on, but I don't have access to the other hard drive at all. I looked around and someone had a similar problem, but with Suse, and I tried some of the "universal" tips that were posted for him, but it won't work still, so maybe someone can help me out on this system....

here is my fstab file for you to look at, and perhaps I should change some stuff, but I just installed this afternoon, and I need to get to some stuff before I enter deep nerd mode....

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <device> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 0 1
/dev/hda1 /windows ntfs defaults,ro,gid=windows,umask=002 0 0
/dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto defaults,user,noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0660,devgid=432 0 0
/dev/scd0 /cdrom udf,iso9660 defaults,user,noauto,ro 0 0

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

You have another hard drive installed that you need to access? Is that correct?

Without knowing your exact setup, here's some general advice. More than likely, it will be listed as /dev/hdb. The partitions on your drive will be labelled /dev/hdb#, where # is the number of the partition you want to access.

So, for my 30GB secondary hard drive, It would be /dev/hdb1 . If you read the manpage for fstab, it should give you hints on how to mount that partition, and what options you might want to use on it.

[manther]

got it, thanks a bunch, I just had to figure out which hdX# it was...