[Techtalk] Mounting Confusion

[Judith Elaine Bush]

I actually just went through something rather similar. (Look, a burn
on my hand to prove it!)

First, I'd suggest sharing the output of fdisk -l with us all. This
will display all the disks and partions that your system knows your
BIOS knows about. Perhaps you could also share your /etc/fstab as well.

Then, i'm a little confused. When you say "I am using hdc," does this
mean that you've installed the OS on hdc and you can boot the system
from it (or from a floppy)?


/home/xxx/ literally is a fine mount point. The output of fdisk will
show how many partitions you have -- you'll need a mount point for
each. (Or you can go through sequentially.)

I've seen many different implementations of mount points. I think that
often a mount point is chosen to indicate the physical nature of the
system, and then a logical link is used to put the file system in a
more usage intuitive path.

However, I have a partition for myself, my spouse, and our shared
space. We mount the partitions in the location of the home
directories. That's not a good design for a general case, but it works
for us.

The command

mount /dev/hdaX /home/xxx 

may work just fine, as mount will probe to see what file system you're using.

Hope this helps,

(My burn was in cleaning up an old root disk. Either i fat fingered or
there was a treacherous symbolic link, and i deleted /dev from my
active root disk. Argh.)


Cheers,

judith

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 03:34:32AM -0500, Andrew wrote:
> Hello,
> 	I am using hdc (a new larger Hd-disk, reiserfs) and want to read and
> get files from hda (the old Hd-disk reiserfs). Somehow Hda will no
> longer mount-boot at start-up even using the bios, if it did my problem
> (lack of understanding) would be in reverse. After getting the files I
> will move the old HD, previously the start-up/boot system HD, to another
> computer. So this only need to be done once.
> 	Statement; reading about mount, /ect/fstab/, ect/mtab, has left me
> without enough info. Or a lack of understanding as to which option to
> choose in this situation.	
> 	Queston; How do I go about reading and copying files from hda while in
> and using hdc? I thought it might be good to mount and read it from
> /home/xxx/
> 
> 	Second question; what "mount" command is issued when I need to simply
> add a second hard disk and just add it to the available space
> perminently. Is one recomended mount point say for user docs, and one
> for recomended. 
> 
> Mndk 8.2
> KDE
> 	Andrew
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