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by dennisbv

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I have installed Redhat 6.2 on a 486 that has two hard-drives during the install I could only get one drive formated(My mistake)I now have used a Dos version og partition magic and found that the second drive was not formated. On the second drive Ideleted the partition then created a linux extended partion on it. How do I get the system to reconize and use the second drive. In linuxconf I don't even see it. On the first drive I set the mount point to \ .

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by pahosler

mounting is only part of the answer.

First you are going to have to add the file system.

mke2fs -c /dev/hdxx
where xx is the coresponding drive number

then you will need to create a directory somewhere on your other drive:

mkdir /downloads

then you can mount the dirve to that directory.

mount /dev/hdxx /downloads

of course you can name the directory whatever you want, just make sure that you mount to that directory. Also you will have to mount this drive manually after every re-boot unless you add a mount command to

/etc/rc.local

Let me know if I can help any further.

Paul

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