Re: How to set a new mountpoint ?

["Liam Black" <Liam_Black@PanCanadianEnergy.com>]

1) Be sure to create a directory(ies) to which you will mount the
partition(s) (i.e. mkdir /mnt/newdrive) and to permission it (chmod 755
/mnt/newdrive) appropriately.

2) Partition your new drive (/dev/hdb1, /dev/hdb2, /dev/hdb5 or whatever)
to your liking, and then edit /etc/fstab. You will see lines for your
existing partitions, which will pretty much tell you what you want to do
for the new ones.

You can also mount / unmount at the command line with

# mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/newdrive

If you are mounting non ex2 partitions, you will have to specify the
filesystem type:

# mount -t vfat /dev/hdb1 /mnt/newdrive

for a FAT drive, for instance.


Gards,
Liam