Can't see both HD

[JockVSJock]

I've got my Knoppix 3.3 box up and it has two hd.

hda1 is 12.5 gig hd for the OS and where / is, all users and swap.

hdb is 20 gig hd for multimedia files.

Both of them are found under /mnt, but if I do this command

df -a

I only see hda1.

Any reason why? I do want to maintain space on hdb.

thanks

[Stephen]

I've got my Knoppix 3.3 box up and it has two hd.

hda1 is 12.5 gig hd for the OS and where / is, all users and swap.

hdb is 20 gig hd for multimedia files.

Both of them are found under /mnt, but if I do this command

df -a

I only see hda1.

Any reason why? I do want to maintain space on hdb.

thanks

Do you have any line(s) for the HD in your /etc/fstab so that the partition(s) on the drive is(are) actually mounted. The disk partition(s) will not show up unless it(they) is(are) mounted.

[JockVSJock]

i don't have an entry under /etc/fstab. I never thougt of that, but I have never had a dual HD under Linux before.

How would one make an entry for it under fstab?

The odd thing, is that it is not mounted, but I have oggs/mp3s on that disk and I am able to play them, create and delete them.

Is there a problem with this?

thanks

[Stephen]

i don't have an entry under /etc/fstab. I never thougt of that, but I have never had a dual HD under Linux before.

How would one make an entry for it under fstab?

The odd thing, is that it is not mounted, but I have oggs/mp3s on that disk and I am able to play them, create and delete them.

Is there a problem with this?

thanks

Well there is never a problem when you have access to your files. Are you sure that you have them on that drive or you do not already have it mounted? Use the mount command to check the only way you can get access to the files is if the file system is mounted somewhere. And can you post the output of the mount command and fdisk -l as root?

[JockVSJock]

i don't have an entry under /etc/fstab. I never thougt of that, but I have never had a dual HD under Linux before.

How would one make an entry for it under fstab?

The odd thing, is that it is not mounted, but I have oggs/mp3s on that disk and I am able to play them, create and delete them.

Is there a problem with this?

thanks

Well there is never a problem when you have access to your files. Are you sure that you have them on that drive or you do not already have it mounted? Use the mount command to check the only way you can get access to the files is if the file system is mounted somewhere. And can you post the output of the mount command and fdisk -l as root?

Very true, there isn't a problem because I can read and write to that disk.

I would like to manage disk space though.

When doing fdisk -l, I get this output:


Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1655 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 14 1176 9341797+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 1177 1303 1020127+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 1304 1655 2827440 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1304 1399 771088+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1400 1495 771088+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 1496 1559 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 1560 1623 514048+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1624 1655 257008+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2481 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

[Stephen]

That is about half of what we need to see, you need to post the rest of the output for the hdb and the mount command plus the /etc/fstab would be nice as well. And what type of install did you do the Debian or Knoppix style?

[JockVSJock]

Here is my output for /etc/fstab...btw I don't have an entry for hdb

 
cmmiller@xanadu:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
/dev/hda2  /  ext3  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1
/dev/hda6  none  swap  sw  0  0
proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/dvd /dvd  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda8 /mnt/hda8 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda9 /mnt/hda9 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb /mnt/hdb auto noauto,users,exec 0 0

[Stephen]

Here is my output for /etc/fstab...btw I don't have an entry for hdb

 
cmmiller@xanadu:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass

# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb /mnt/hdb auto noauto,users,exec 0 0

Well you have an entry but it is not correct you need to change the hdb to hdb1 assuming there is only one partition on the second hard drive and it is a primary partition if it is a extended partition you should use hdb5 I can not tell which you need because there is no output in your post above for the fdisk -l for hdb and you should change the noauto in the line to auto if you want it mounted on boot. Is that all the output you get from the fdisk -l or was it just cut off when you posted? It should so you the partition number(s) that you need to use in the /etc/fstab.

[JockVSJock]

Here is my output for /etc/fstab...btw I don't have an entry for hdb

 
cmmiller@xanadu:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass

# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb /mnt/hdb auto noauto,users,exec 0 0

Well you have an entry but it is not correct you need to change the hdb to hdb1 assuming there is only one partition on the second hard drive and it is a primary partition if it is a extended partition you should use hdb5 I can not tell which you need because there is no output in your post above for the fdisk -l for hdb and you should change the noauto in the line to auto if you want it mounted on boot. Is that all the output you get from the fdisk -l or was it just cut off when you posted? It should so you the partition number(s) that you need to use in the /etc/fstab.

How do I rename my second HD? Just edit /etc/fstab?

/dev/hdb /mnt/hdb auto noauto,users,exec 0 0

to

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0


Do I also want to remove the noauto so the HD automatically mounts? It mounts now.

thanks

[JockVSJock]

Still don't understand why I was able to read/write/execute files on this disk, but it wasn't setup right.

I had to do the following to fix it:

fdisk

mkfs

then mount it...

This are the steps one should take when setting up a 2nd HD under Linux. Google around for more complete directions.

thanks