On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:06, Victor Churchill wrote:
> On 23/12/06, Rob Malpass <rob@???> wrote:
> > > You need to add something like the following line to your fstab
> > >
> > > /dev/hdb1 /mnt ext3 defaults 0 0
> > >
> > > This assumes that you have a partition on hdb called hdb1 you want to
> > > mount
> > > the disk under /mnt and it has the ext3 file system on the partion.
> >
> > Thanks Tim - that's done the trick.
>
> Oo err - that way /mnt will end up 'containing' whatever is on that
> hdb disk but it won't be available for anything else you might want to
> put under /mnt (cdrom,usb,... - although I'm a bit behind nowadays as
> to what gets put under /mnt and what under /media).
>
> I'd be inclined to say "mkdir /mnt/disk2" or something and then
> replace Tim's /mnt with /mnt/disk2 . That way you can still mount
> other things under /mnt if you need to later.
>
Opps!! I did say somebody would correct me, I had intended to add a folder but
made a mistake in my typing and never went back to add the /mnt/something bit
Glads its sorted though
Tim
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