Enable slave hdd in Ubuntu

Bill Marcum bmarcum at iglou.com
Thu Nov 17 16:54:15 UTC 2005


On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:33:12 +0000, Sarangan Thuraisingham 
  <sarangan.thuraisingham at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What format of the mount command did you try? If you did something like 
> this:
>    # mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/my_secod_disk
>
> Then mount command will look for mount options in /etc/fstab file.

Mount will look in /etc/fstab if you give either the device name or the
mount point, not both.  Only the superuser can use the device name and 
mount point in a mount command.  A regular user can mount a filesystem 
that is listed in /etc/fstab with the option "user" or "users".


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