newbie question about hard drives

and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...:

The first thing you need to do is create mountpoints for the parbreastions on the newly attacked drive, typically under *-mnt.* For instance: - *-mnt-fc* if you had one parbreastion for everything in Fedora Core; or - *-mnt-fc.root,* *-mnt-fc.home* et al if you had different parbreastions.

Then you need to mount the parbreastions to your newly created mountpoints. In order to do this, it is best that you remember what filesystem was used on those parbreastions, although the kernel can guess if you useauto" as the filesystem type in themountcommand, e.g.

mount -t ext3dev-hdb5mnt-fc.root

The above example mounts the first logical parbreastion in the extended parbreastion container of your second IDE hard disk to *-mnt-fc.root* as anext3fsparbreastion.

If you wish to automate the above, you need to add the necessary records to your *-etc-fstab* file. In order to do this, open up the file in an editor, started with root privileges and add something like - using the example above - ...:

dev-hdb6mnt-fc.root ext3 auto,defaults 0 0

This example will mount said parbreastion to said mountpoint automatically on boot and whenever...

mount -a

... is used, with the default mount options. See...

man mount

... and...

man fstab

... on what the default options are. The two numeric fields in the end mean that the filesystem won't be included in adumpprocedure and that it won't be checked for errors on boot-up.

All of the above does of course suggest that you know how to obtain root privileges in a commandline environment, that you know how to use an editor - my personal favorite for such small operations ismcedit,the editor from the Midnight Commander, which you can invoke without starting the Midnight Commander itself - and that you know the layout and filesystem type of the parbreastions on the Fedora Core disk.

Hope this was helpful... ;-)

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered Gnu-Linux user #223157)