8.04 mounting second drive help

[jack wallen]

Rashkae wrote:
> Did MAKEDEV perhaps create the sdb device right in /dev instead of
> /dev/.static ?
>
>   
i just found a bunch of sdb devices in my ~/ directory. i tried to mount 
each of them but always had the error:

mount: /home/jlwallen/sdb* is not a valid block device (where * is each 
device i tried to mount).

> Maybe the problem is simply that udev is not working on your system at
> all and you are relying only on static device files.
>
> Try mount /dev/sdb1 /data again and see if it works now.
>
> If it does, you probably still need to fix udev, but at least now you'll
> know what's broken.
>
>
>   

-- 
jack wallen 
www.monkeypantz.net

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