Re: Can't access /dev/hdd
* Mark Roach (mrroach@okmaybe.com) [020828 17:44]:
> 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.
Yes, I guess he could mount it in "/mnt". That's a valid directory just
like it is... I've just always seen people use sub-dirs below it. :)
Hall
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