How do I add a hard drive

Scot L. Harris webid at cfl.rr.com
Fri Feb 18 04:12:18 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 23:10, Mark Healey wrote:
> I'd like to add a hard drive that would be /usr/share/music. 
>   I managed to partition and format it.  I added the line:
> 
> /dev/hdb1 /usr/share/music ext3  defaults 1 1
> 
> to /etc/fstab
> 
> in /var/log/boot.log there is:
> 
> mount: mount: mount point /usr/share/music does not exist
> 
> What is a mount point and how do I create one?

You need to create a directory /usr/share/music which becomes the mount
point for your new drive.

Make sure you set the permissions on the directory correctly.

Use df -vh to see if the drive is mounted or not.
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