Dumb newbie question: mounting additional drive

[Mike Reinehr]

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 11:21 pm, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> I think I can take a swat at this one.
>
> #mount -t xfs /dev/hdd3 /mnt/<wherever>

	I would suggest adding the read-only option to this, since your intent is 
just to recover some files:

	#mount -t xfs -ro /dev/hdd3 /mnt/<wherever>

> should do the trick. ?(from $man mount) ?It looks like the drive is setup
> as the slave on the second IDE controller in the system and the system is
> reading the existing partition table. ?The three primary partitions are
> addressed as:
>
> /dev/hdd1???????(boot partition - ext2)
> /dev/hdd2???????(swap partition)
> /dev/hdd3???????(root partition - xfs)
>
> Just create a mount point in some directory (I assume /mnt) and mount the
> partition. ?The data will then look just like a directory in your root file
> system. ?If you are going to use it for a while, it may make sense to
> include it in your /etc/fstab file. ?($man mount, again)
>
> If this don't work we will need to get one of the certifiable geniuses to
> give an answer.

	This leaves me out! :)

> ? ? ?-- Alma

mike
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