Mount a hd with ubuntu on it

[wade at wadesmart.com]

10292006 1156 GMT-6

I might note, my computer case doesnt have a lot of room. The hd has a
single cable and power cord. The cd rom had a second slave slot and
power cord so I plugged my second hd there. Does that make a
difference?

wade

10292006 1148 GMT-6

It does not show up on the list.
? odd

wade

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Mount a hd with ubuntu on it
> From: "Peter N. Spotts" <pspotts at alum.mit.edu>
> Date: Sun, October 29, 2006 11:41 am
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>
> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 10:24 -0700, wade at wadesmart.com wrote:
> > 10292006 1119 GMT-6
> >
> > I have a new 200GB hd installed with 6.06LTS.
> > I want to get my data off of my old 40GB hd that has 5.10 on it.
> > I just want my files from /home.
> > Im reading the wiki on mounting.
> > Im not clear on how to do this.
> > A second hd would be hdb?
> >
> > wade
> >
> >
>
> Wade,
>
> Try opening a terminal and typing in fdisk -l at the prompt as sudo.
> That will list the drives the system sees. If the new drive shows up
> (you can tell by the capacity it shows), jot down the hd designation,
> then as sudo at the prompt, type   mount /dev/hdxx   where hdxx is the
> designation you found. If this works, then you may have to
> edit /etc/fstab to include the new drive available to the system.
>
> Best,
>
> Pete
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