This is probably quite trivial, and I am sure it is an often done thing, - here it is… how do i mount extra harddrives…?
After a hardrive crash which took out my opensuse 11.2, I installed three new harddrives instead of the old ones. I have installed xp. To see of I could triple boot, i thereafter put in linux mint. I did not like that and installed opensuse 11.3 - to ensure it would place itself on the two second harddrives (formatted in ntfs and with some data on) i before installation took those cables off… And now alas… there are no mount points…
So I tried yast, and found the partitioner, chose edit tried to put mount points … however… nothing seemed to have happened…
But the problem is the two disks already have files in them… - my plan was to have OS on one disk and data on the others.
So I need to find out to make mount points without making new partions instead of the original partitions… could that be possible…?
“Edit /etc/fstab to make permanent.” could you explain that a bit…?
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> But the problem is the two disks already have files in them…
Okay, then you skip to “create mount point”.
> - my plan was to have OS on one disk and data on the others.
> So I need to find out to make mount points without making new partions
> instead of the original partitions… could that be possible…?
Sure - mount points are just placeholders in your filesystem. “mkdir
mountpoint” is all you need.
> “Edit /etc/fstab to make permanent.” could you explain that a bit…?
To have filesystems mounted on start-up, you add them to /etc/fstab -
this is read at start-up, and the filesystems are mounted as you have
instructed. You might be better off just using YaST to facilitate
this.
With what you just said, you want the mount point to be E and hosted off of the root (/) so did you open terminal and goto / and mkdir E? and set permissions?
A note: it is customary to make mounts for additional drives under /mnt or /media or /windows or /local and make a link in your user home pointing to the
drive such that it is accessible to you during normal operation of the system.
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> Hi again
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> But that is more or less what I try; I use the GUI, I open Yast,
> select partitioner, then I using the mouse right click and chose edit…
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> Then I chose it shouldn’t format it, and I also mark mount.
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> It asks for an mount point, I write /E
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> in Fstab options it says mount in /etc/Fstab by
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> and I mark ID
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> Then I say ok, finish…
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> And nothing changes…?
I’m not sure if YaST creates mount points for you - if not, you’ll have
to do that yourself: mkdir /E
Mm that is a good point, - actually I just wrote E as the name of the drive, and I can follow you that in that way it would be mounted on root.
That was not my intention. (and i just checked, yes you are right it is under Root in the file system, - it just can’t open and show its files.)
So what would Suse have done if the two disks (E&F) had been connected during installation, would they then be mounted /mnt/E & /mnt/F or…?
Actually I just them mounted so they work normally in the system, as if they had been there all along. (And I will never ever disconnect disks during OS installation!!) So I gues I ask, what would you suggest I write as mount point
Well what I did on my system to access the windose drives was:
Installer configured the windows c: d: e: f: by making a root folder /windows and automatically created win_c win_d win_e win_f
( manually you would open a terminal and mkdir /windows/win_c for example then in YAST tell it to mount the drive to /windows/win_c)
create a link in your home folder by (in terminal) type ln E /windows/win_c if i’m not mistaken
I forgot how to change permissions so drive becomes always accessible I think it was as root chown <user> /windows/win_c
Hmm it really seems to be complicated, but it must be solvable somehow. First of all I think it can be done from the GUI using Yast, it looks like it. I think it is just me who put the wrong lines for mount point.
And I see your way must be working, Techwiz3, but it a bit complicated, and there must be a simpler way, after all adding a harddisk is normally done once in a while.
Now I got an idea; to burn a live KDE cd, let that run as live cd, and note the mountpoints, because i think that will mount the drives (but only in the ramdisk of course) … that might help me…?
Doing from DVD installer way, when you get to partitioning you would make sure to select the windows drives -> Edit -> set mount point as /windows/win_c make sure format is unchecked and leave the rest alone for that drive then click next to return to the summary screen do other drives same way
So I have tried the live cd, - but it didn’t mount them. So I instead thought about the C disk, there is a windows mount point. I opened dolphin and so how it was mounted, and copied that for E & F drive.
That seems to work, and I can, as you suggested Techwiz3, open it in /Windows/
Now I should like to send a screenprint to you of Yast partitioner.
Because I also have, on my first drive, 1.26 TB which seems to have gone missing. Its not a windows partition, its not formatted with ext either. It is listed as an extended partition, and Yast won’t edit it for the same reason.
Secondly; now I have mounted E & F, both large partitions, 1.3 TB in NTFS
Now as I can see, the missing 1.26 TB, /dev/sda 2 is more or less the same as /dev/sda 5, meaning I could mount sda5. But where would it be logical for Suse…?
Could I format part of sdb and sdc in ext4? ( E and F)
sda2 is a container for sda5 and sda6 thusly you can’t mount it. All it does is allocate a huge space for adding more logical drives so you can have more than 4 partitions on a physical disk. Yes you can mount sda5 to anywhere you like in your Linux tree, /local or /mnt are normal choices.
Well still puzzled, and learning a lot I seem to solved my initial problem with your help and comments which pushed me the right way. So thanks to the two of you.
I might have some clarifying questions later when i have diggested it a bit, - partly i think i mix up in my mind the physical docking and sort of a more adress naming, because i would really like to use it in making partitions, and rearranging them. So I will return later, and hope to be enligthened further. .
