Re: [Nolug] Finding a new hard drive in Redhat9

Michael,
    You will need to know what physical drive it is, e.g. hda or hdb
for the first and second IDEdrives, or sda or sdb for the second SCSI.
You also need to know how it's partitioned. For example, if your mp3
files are in partition 1 of the second IDE, they will be in hdb1. You
can use "fdisk /dev/hdb," for example, to get the partition
information. Just make sure you don't make any unintentional changes
to the partition table in fdisk.
    Then you make a mount point off the / directory, e.g. "mkdir
/mp3". Now edit /etc/fstab so that hdb1 points to that mount point. I
don't know what filesystem to use for ntfs, but the syntax in RH7.2
would be something like
/dev/hdb2 /mp3 /xxxxxxxx
defaults 1 2
where xxxxxxx represents whatever the correct filesystem type is for
your version of Linux. I haven't read through it, but you can get more
information on Linux and ntfs at http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net.
Your distro may have a slightly different format, but if you compare
it to another line in fstab, say the one about /mnt/floppy, you will
see the correct syntax. You probably will want it to automount.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
http://www.originsresource.org
-----Original Message-----
From: Retrolin@aol.com <Retrolin@aol.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 7:38 PM
Subject: [Nolug] Finding a new hard drive in Redhat9

>sorry about so many messages as I have just said, I am VERY new with
linux. Ok. I got a second hard drive, and I have all my MP3's on it.
I use it in windows to listen to music, and now I want to use it in
Linux as well. It is in NTFS file system so I figured that is why I
can't find it under disk management so I downloaded a new kernel to
support NTFS and installed it
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-ntfs/ however, I am sensing
that I cannot just go to disk management and find the drive and use
it. I am really lost as to how to add the drive. I was reading up on
it, and I found a few things where it says to enter the drive name?
if adding the drive requires me to do that, how do I get the drive
name? thank you in advance
>Michael
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