How does one access and/or mount a spare HD in Xubuntu?

[celticninja]

Well i have a spare HD and i formatted it to ext3, but cant mount it in GParted. And upon reading different forum post typed in the sudo fdisk -l command and it produced this:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c34de

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9327 74919096 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9328 9729 3229065 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9328 9729 3229033+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 10011 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xd1fa51f2

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 10011 80413326 83 Linux

and i tried sudo mount /dev/sdb and /dev/sdv1 but it came up with:

can't find /dev/sdb1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

[chewearn]

What do you get for the following commands:
mount -l
cat /etc/fstab

[celticninja]

mount -l:

/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro) []
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
securityfs on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev


cat /etc/fstab:


# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=4209be6b-b03e-43d5-b862-a533c6d39195 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=29835988-43cd-481f-829b-a419598e85f8 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
/dev/scd1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

[chewearn]

Right-click on a desktop panel
Select "Add new item"
Type "Places" in the search box
Select Places applet
Click "Add" button

A "Places" applet will now be added on the panel. If you click on it, your additional harddisk should be listed.
Click on the harddisk entry, select the pop-up menu "Mount".
To unmount, right-click on your harddisk entry, and select "Unmount".

[celticninja]

Well i did that, and it just has the same options as the default Places

[sisco311]

To mount manually the partition:
sudo mount -t ext3 -o defaults /dev/sdb1 /mnt

The partition will be mounted in the /mnt directory.


To mount the partition at boot time:
Edit the fstab:
sudo mousepad /etc/fstaband add this line at the end of the file:
/dev/sdb1 <mount-point> ext3 relatime,defaults 0 2Replace <mount-point> with an empty,existing directory from your file system.
example1:
sudo mkdir /media/my-data--->
/dev/sdb1 /media/my-data ext3 relatime,defaults 0 2example2:
mkdir /home/<your-username-here>/data--->
/dev/sdb1 /home/<you-username-here>/data ext3 relatime,defaults 0 2Mount the partition:
sudo mount -aTo get write permission change the owner and group[ of the partition:

sudo chown -R <your-username>:<your-username> <mount-point>For example:
sudo chown -R celticninja:celticninja /home/celticninja/data

[celticninja]

Thanks, i will probably just keep that command to manually mount it, bc i don't always need to use it, basically its just for back-up :)