Mounting a 2nd linux drive

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#1

Hi
I’m trying to mount a second Linux drive to retrieve some data from it.
I’m running Suse 10.3 and wanting to mount a drive that was running 10.1 but now has a boot failure.
My own hard drive is a SATA drive and the drive I want to mount is IDE (as a Slave).
If I do an fdisk -l this is what I get:

garthlinux:/home/garth # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0004a259

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9400 75505468+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9401 9729 2642692+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c8523

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb2 * 263 2873 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 2874 9729 55070820 f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sdb5 2874 5484 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 5485 7182 13639153+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 7183 9729 20458746 83 Linux

I see the new drive has been allocated as sda1 and 2 (was expecting it to come up as sdb1 and 2 etc)

How do I mount (and unmount when done) this drive now?

#2

I’m not sure which is the one you want to mount
In a su terminal

mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt

the above will mount sdb2 in /mnt

replace sdb2 with any other eg; sdb5 or sdb6 or sda1

if you want to mount permanently you need to edit /etc/fstab
see: FSTAB - Editing Manually - openSUSE Forums

also
Linux HOWTOs and Tutorials: Suse Linux 10.0, 10.1 openSUSE 10.2, 10.3, 11.0, 11.1

#3

Thanks. It’s sda1 that I want and I’m in there.

#4

Good job. Let us know if you need any more advice.:slight_smile: