Mounting sdb1 in XFCE

[fb22]

Hiya,

I want to know how to mount second hard drives formatted in ext3.

I added a second hard drive to my system. It showed up on the desktop as 78GB NTFS. I used gparted to create a new partition table and created a new partition sdb1 in ext3. After re-booting, the desktop icon disappeared.

I couldn't find sdb1 anywhere, so I tried using the mount command with no success. After reading the man page for mount, and searching the forum, I get the impression that I have to edit /etc/fstab in order to get the partition to mount and be accessible in thunar.

my current /etc/fstab is as follows:

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# / was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=22da4cdc-c6a8-48a3-b72a-1e6c770fabdd /               ext3    relatime,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /home was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=6f82f91e-4634-411c-bad5-3e43f07e7ce5 /home           ext3    relatime        0       2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=2aa9d4b6-c9e8-4fa1-8070-796baabf6f69 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0
/dev/fd0        /media/floppy0  auto    rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0       0

I'm adding the additional disk to have somewhere to write my data whilst I fix my ugly partition arrangement.

I have a 19GB NTFS partition on hda that I want to remove, and I want to get / and /boot in separate partitions on the front end of the HDD.

My work around is to re-format hdb in NTFS and copy my data there while I do a re-install. The NTFS partition shows up no problem on my desktop.

My guess is that I'd use vol_id --uuid and add a line to /etc/fstab like:

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UUID=<uuid> /data           ext3    relatime        0       2

Suggestions?

Regards,

-FHB

[Husse]

You can use the line for home as a pattern -but you must first create a mount point and I suggest you do that in home
You make a folder, call it bkp or whatever you like in home
Then the line becomes

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/dev/sdb1 /home/bkp           ext3    relatime        0       2

And this must of course be done as root - gksu thunar would give you root
You could look up the UUID with blkid if you like - the command is simply blkid
You could copy the first part of the line and remove the quotation marks (remember that!)