Re: Accessing a 2nd hard drive

[Carl Lucas <clucas adelphia net>]

------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 
13:33:13 +0000 From: Tony Dietrich <td transoft demon co uk> Subject: 
Re: Accessing a 2nd hard drive To: For users of Fedora Core releases 
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charset="iso-8859-1" On Thursday 30 Dec 2004 00:27, Carl Lucas wrote:

> > What I have done was a clean install of Fedora Core 3. I have an 80 gig
>  
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> > Output of mount:
> > [root localhost carl]# mount
>  
*********************************************************************

> > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 on / type ext3 (rw)
>  
*********************************************************************

> > none on /proc type proc (rw)
> > none on /sys type sysfs (rw)
> > none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
> > usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
> > /dev/hda3 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
> > none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
> > /dev/hda2 on /home/carl/windows type ntfs (ro,umask=0222)
> > none on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
> > sunrpc on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
> >
> > How do I access the 2nd hard drive?
> >
> > I have tried creating a mount point but it says the drive is already
> > mounted. The output of "mount" doesn't have anything about LogVol01.
> >
> > Shouldn't I be able to, for example, create a folder on the 2nd hard
> > drive and save my digital photos there? In other words, shouldn;t I be
> > able to access the 2nd drive. Or is it set up to be "one big hard drive"?
>  

It IS mounted, see ***** above.

You've installed your / onto the Logical Volume on the 2nd hard disk.

The /dev/mapper entries control the LV on the second hd.

TD


I believe I understand. So it is, as I thought, "one big hard drive". And I will be unable to save things to the 2nd hard drive. Correct?