Mounting hard drives in linux...???

[Paulson]

Ok, I have mandrake 8.1 installed... What I want to do is make it so I can use my 40 gig hard drive to store all my website stuff on that hard drive, and not my 6.4gig (which is only registering as 3.0 gigs...

How do I first off mount the 40 gig hard drive, secondly, is there a way I could change where the home directory was?

Thanks...

 

[Louie1961a]

I am sure there is more than one way to skin this cat, but to me the easiest is to use linux config. Look in your mandrake menus under "configuration" then "other". There should be an application called linuxconf in there. Start linux config and click on file systems. From there click on access local drives. when that opens, you can add the drive from there. Two things: I think you have to format the drive first (can be in fat 16, fat 32, or other MS type file systems if you want), and you probably already have a directory called "home" on your file system, so you will probably have to remove it first. If you don't want to do that, you can mount the drive as /home/whatever you want.

You can do this by editing fstab directly too (I think??) but I am not a whiz at editing linux config files, even though the purists will tell you we all should be (and maybe rightfully so).

Good luck

 

[Paulson]

Thanks

No wonder that's why the 40 gig wasn't showing up, it's not formatted! (duh!)