How do I add a hard drive

Mark Healey marklist at healeyonline.com
Fri Feb 18 04:40:27 UTC 2005


Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 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.

Thanks worked great.  Now I'll be posting another question 
about  HPFS and ext3.

-- 
Mark Healey
marklist at healeyonline.com




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