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re mounting a second hard drive from /backup to /home2 how?
| Posted by sharmaine1111, 06-16-2009, 03:45 AM |
| Hi
My second hard drive is mounted as /backup. I have a remote rsync backup. i want to remount thsi second hard drive to /home2 instead
Can someone please teach me how to do that?
Thanks
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| Posted by serversignature, 06-16-2009, 04:33 AM |
| Run the command fdisk -l as root once you have attached your HDD
And then use the mount command as an example shown below.
Example:
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| Posted by Beast5, 06-16-2009, 04:33 AM |
| etc/fstab is your friend.
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html
take a look at this guide.
understand what you are doing, and be careful while editing!
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| Posted by mellow-h, 06-16-2009, 10:10 PM |
| This will do the job as server signature said. But make sure to umount /backup running this:
Otherwise, both will be set as mountpoint
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| Posted by sharmaine1111, 06-17-2009, 12:20 AM |
| I did this and it did not work.
I tried the opposite way maybe thats the reason why it didnt work. I put mount /home2 /dev/sda2 instead of mount /dev/sda2 /home2
Thanks for all the help will try this.
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| Posted by Beast5, 06-17-2009, 03:17 AM |
| hi
/etc/fstab is basicly a mapping of your server mounts.
so in case you will have to reboot the server ( and your mounts WONT be in the fstab file) , the server will NOT automaticly mount the /home2 on boot.
the line you should add needs to look like this
/dev/sda2 /home2 {FILESYSTEM TYPE} defaults 0 0
The file system type should be ext2 or ext3 ,depends on the way the disk was formated.
to get the file system format type use:
you will see there the format type at the end of the line.
after your fstab file is set correctly.
do
then type
you should see it mounted.
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