Dumb newbie question: mounting additional drive

[Mike Reinehr]

This may be unnecessary so, if so, I apologize for not giving you sufficient 
credit. :)

Of, course, you can't mount a drive, per se, but rather mount the individual 
partitions on the drive. Once, as Lonni has explained, you identify the drive 
in your system (/dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/scd0, etc.) then I would use cfdisk 
(with caution) to examine the partitions 
(/dev/hdb0, /dev/hdb1, ..., /dev/hdbn). Once you've identified the 
partitions, I'm not sure how you would go about determining the file system 
type, other than by trial & error (ext2, ext3, xfs, etc.), and issue the 
appropriate mount command.

mike

On Tuesday 02 March 2004 07:55 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 03/02/04 17:45, Harry G wrote:
> > I have added a drive to my system (which is a Libranet box).  The drive
> > has an old Suse 8.1 install on it.
> >
> > My question is how can I mount the drive so I can copy data from it?  I
> > need to get the old docs off of it.
>
> Depends on where you've attached it physically to the system:
> hda = primary master IDE drive
> hdb = primary slave IDE drive
> hdc = secondary master IDE drive
> hdd = secondary slave IDE drive
>
> SCSI drives start with sda, and just go down the list of letters in the
> alphabet.   Look at the output from dmesg to see how the drive was
> detected if you're unsure.  Then its as simple as mounting the partition:
> mount -t <FS> /dev/whatever /mnt/foo

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