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Old 07-01-2002, 03:09 PM   #1
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How do you use two hard drives?


Hi, I recently got a second hard drive for my computer, and I want to make it so I can use one hard drive for all the OS info and the second hard drive to just save files to and stuff. The thing is though, when I put both in, only in the hardware browser is it recognizing that I have both hard drives in there. I even have redhat 7.3 on one HD and 7.2 on the other. Using the kdisk or whatever, it won't let me mount the second hd because it says that it's already mounted or whatever. By the way, it is the same problem no matter which HD I use to boot from. It never lets me use the filemanager on the second HD either. It only formats the "root" part of the second hd, and when I do that, that STILL won't let me filebrowse. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
-calimer
 
Old 07-01-2002, 03:44 PM   #2
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I have multiple hard drives working fine...

try this...

cfdisk and set the second hard drive to be type ext2 with a mount point of /mnt/hd2

it should be mounted under /mnt/hd2

to check and see if it's mounted currently, just do a df and look for
/dev/hda (first dd), /dev/hdb (second dd), /dev/hdc (third dd), /dev/hdd (fourth dd) or if you're using scsi, /dev/sda...etc.

when you see which different drives are mounted, you can see
which mount points they're loaded at.
 
Old 07-08-2002, 05:12 AM   #3
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Just type:"mount"
And see where your second hd is mounted.
 
  


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