Enable slave hdd in Ubuntu

[Sarangan Thuraisingham]

Miguel Angel Velasco wrote:
> Hi, I´ve just installed Ubuntu in my Computer. I have 2 hdd´s (master 
> with ubuntu and slave with ext2 format). The previous intallation was 
> with Suse and now I can´t watch the information that is on the slave 
> hdd. I try to mount the unit and there is a message telling there is no 
> entry in fstab file....
> Behind I append the exit of fdisk.
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> root at Corbeta:/home/admin# fdisk -l
> 
> Disco /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80000000000 bytes
> 255 cabezas, 63 sectores/pista, 9726 cilindros
> Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> Disposit. Inicio    Comienzo      Fin      Bloques  Id  Sistema
> /dev/hda1   *           1        9443    75850866   83  Linux
> /dev/hda2            9444        9726     2273197+   5  Extendida
> /dev/hda5            9444        9726     2273166   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> 
> Disco /dev/hdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
> 255 cabezas, 63 sectores/pista, 19457 cilindros
> Unidades = cilindros de 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> 
> Disposit. Inicio    Comienzo      Fin      Bloques  Id  Sistema
> /dev/hdb1               1       19456   156280288+  83  Linux
> -- 
> 

What format of the mount command did you try? If you did something like 
this:
   # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/my_secod_disk

Then mount command will look for mount options in /etc/fstab file. If 
you don't have an entry, then it will complain. So try this and see if 
it works?
   # mount -t ext2 -o defaults /dev/hdb1 /mnt/my_secod_disk

Make sure that you have create a folder called "/mnt/my_second_disk" or 
use a folder name that you have already got ready.

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Regards,
  - Saru
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Sarangan Thuraisingham
ECS, University of Southampton, UK

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