Re: Can't access /dev/hdd
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 03:28:47PM -0400, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> At 03:09 PM 8/28/2002 -0400, Phil Beder wrote:
> >When we installed, we put a 20 gig HD as the secondary
> > drive on the secondary ide controller (in hindsight I
> > could have thought of better ways to do this but the set
> > of hands I had was in a hurry and didn't give me much of a
> > choice). I'm now trying to mount this drive,
> >
> >mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd1 /mnt
>
> That is incomplete... Create a sub-dir under /mnt for this /dev/hdd1
> device. Call it /mnt/hdd1 if you want. Now, try that mount command again,
> this time like this:
>
> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd1 /mnt/hdd1
There is nothing wrong with his mount command, it is just mounting to a
different folder than yours. There is nothing magic about /mnt/xxx any
folder can be used.
Phil, from your email it looks like you don't care about losing anythin
on the drive, have you tried reformatting it? just run 'mke2fs /dev/hdd1'
and then try mounting it.
-Mark
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