Re: Mounting and writing to second hard drive...

[Unruh <unruh-spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

zed <zed@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>ITMA - if any one of you is old enough to remember?

>I have 2 x 200GB hard drives in my desktop computer:

>(1) one is formatted for Linux and contains my root, swap and Home
>partitions with LinuxMint installed.

>(2) the other is formatted with Ext3 for one partition only.

>I can mount (2) by going in to Computer and clicking on Mount but I cannot
>write to the drive.



>Questions>

>(a) What do I do to have the drive mount at boot?
Put a line in /etc/fstab
/dev/hdb1    /extra ext3 rw 1 5

(assuming that one partition is on drive hdb and is the first partition.
Show us what
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
says.

>(b) What do I do to gain permanent permission to write to the drive?

How did you try to write the drive in the first place.



>What I intend to do is to use this drive to hold pictures, audio files and
>backups of my Home directory in appropriate folders.

>As usual, your advice would be much appreciated.

>And the weather hasn't improved in New Zealand since my last email.  It is
>now "bucketing" down, the wind has increased markedly, and I'm going to tuck
>myself up in bed :-)

>Zed
>-- 
>zed