Hardy... where are my other hard drives?

**linuxted** · April 30th, 2008

I used to find them in /media/disk after doing a mount... I don't see them anymore?

I'm nervous as all of my backup stuff is on these disks.

**El King** · April 30th, 2008

Open terminal
Accessories > Terminal
and write

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

it's a small l
and post back ur results

**linuxted** · May 1st, 2008

Originally Posted by El King

Open terminal
Accessories > Terminal
and write

Code:

sudo fdisk -l

it's a small l
and post back ur results

fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0551e1a9

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 9541 76638051 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 9542 9729 1510110 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9542 9729 1510078+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0001f968

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 238216 120060832+ 83 Linux

At least it recognizes it... I think it is /dev/sdb1

**linuxted** · May 1st, 2008

I found it... had to do the following in a perl script:

$path = "/mnt/backup";
$drive = "/dev/sdb1";

# Setup for mounting the directory
print "Making the directory:\n";
print "mkdir $path\n";
system ("mkdir $path");
# Mount the disk. Older versions were in /media/disk
print "\nMounting the disk:\nmount -t ext3 $drive $path\n";
system ("mount -t ext3 $drive $path");