adding a hdd help

[dijit]

hi

i recently "plugged in" an extra hdd that i had used with no os on, just a FAT32 file system.

Its a 40GB hard drive partitioned into 30 and 10GB's the 30 has loads of data on that i just cannot loose!

anyway,
i put it in the other day, and SuSe detected new hardware and asked if i wanted to set it up
it showed a table of partitions it would create, and because i didnt know what i was doing i closed it.

so now it doesnt appear when i plug it in
so

a. how do i get this installation thing back

and

b. do i trust it to know what it is doing with my partitions and not overwrite the data and so just let it carry on and install itself ?

<scared> :)

[mdwatts]

Just add (as root) the entries for each fat32 partition to your /etc/fstab.

/dev/hd?# /mnt/<mountpoint> vfat rw,defaults,noauto,umask=0 0 0

Change

hd?# to the correct device and partition number

<mountpoint> to where it will be mounted

noauto to auto if you want the fat32 automatically mounted upon boot.

man mount (for lots of other options etc.)

[dijit]

oh my god that makes absolutely no sense to me!

i am completely new to linux !

surely i should let suse do it for me ?

[dijit]

this is what it looks likfe in fstab at the moment

/dev/ataraid/d0p2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hdf2 /data1 auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/ataraid/d0p1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
/dev/hdf1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0