How to access other hardrives on PC

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I have recently installed opensuse 11 and I like it very much, but I can’t see my other two hdds on this PC.

Here’s:
davek@linux-wadt:~> sudo /sbin/fdisk -l

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root’s password:

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd33dd33d

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 4660 37431418+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 4661 4865 1646662+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 4661 4865 1646631 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 41.1 GB, 41174138880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5005 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90909090

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 2002 16081033+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 2003 5005 24121597+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdc: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x90909090

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 1 38506 309299413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdc3 38507 38913 3269227+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
davek@linux-wadt:~>

how do I access the other two hdds, sda and sdc?
(sdb is opensuse11)

Thanks.

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vinoman2,

You need to mount them of course.

Use the mount command for example ‘mount /dev/sda1 /mnt’
This will mount the filesystem on sda1 in /mnt

You can have this happen automatically by placing the entries
into /etc/fstab

–

Niclas Ekstedt, CNA/CNE/CNS/CLS
Systems Engineer/NSC Sysop
Telindus Sweden AB

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I ran the mount command but I don’t see anything sda1 icon in the mount file.

here’s my fstab:

/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST340014A_5JX2V8ZC-part5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_MAXTOR_STM33206_6QF1BRMG-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HDS728040PLAT20_PFD100S1RU6WPG-part1 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HDS728040PLAT20_PFD100S1RU6WPG-part2 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0

how do a adjust the entries to auto mount?

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vinoman2,

Just add a line a line like the below to the file. You might wanna
check the settings however to make sure you get the access you want.

/dev/sda1 /mnt ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1

–

Niclas Ekstedt, CNA/CNE/CNS/CLS
Systems Engineer/NSC Sysop
Telindus Sweden AB

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so all I need to auto mount the two hdds is:

/dev/sda1 /mnt
/dev/sdc1 /mnt

?

anything else after /mnt ?

6

vinoman2,

>
> so all I need to auto mount the two hdds is:
>
> /dev/sda1 /mnt
> /dev/sdc1 /mnt

You can’t mount two sources to the same directory /mnt.
Crate two new dirs beneath /mnt and mount to these dirs instead.

Also check the following URL, it’ll give you some understandig of
/etc/fstab and mounting, http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

–

Niclas Ekstedt, CNA/CNE/CNS/CLS
Systems Engineer/NSC Sysop
Telindus Sweden AB