Mounting second hd Ubuntu server

PogMoThoin

I had mentioned this problem in my other thread, but felt i'd get a better answer if i started a new one. Hope ye mods dont mind

I'm trying to mount a new hd thats already formatted to ext3 before i took it out of my main rig, i've made a directory in /home/public for it, taken control of it & set access mode for the folder.

This is what i've done in preparation:

sudo mkdir /home/public/Colms_Media
sudo chown colm /home/public/Colms_Media
sudo chmod 777 /home/public/Colms_Media

But "fdisk -l" gives me absolutely no output at all. How can i mount this hd without knowing what its named as?

Help please

ethernet

Have you tried a plain old

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /home/public/Colms_Media

or even

sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt

to rule out permissions.

PogMoThoin

That worked m8

Its obviously a permissions problem

cheers m8

PogMoThoin

Just an update, all went great, i had to change ownership of /home/public/Colms_Media to root to allow it to be shared. Uploading all my Music & vids as we speek

ethernet

That's great. Bless the simplicity of ext3!

Are you going to be using it all the time? Have you added it to /etc/fstab to save you mounting manually after a reboot?

PogMoThoin

ethernet wrote: »

That's great. Bless the simplicity of ext3!

Are you going to be using it all the time? Have you added it to /etc/fstab to save you mounting manually after a reboot?

Ya, added it to /etc/fstab straight away