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View Harddrives on Fedora (Linux)

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by dr.llvll

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Okay, here's my problem. (I posted this elsewhere but I just reposted this because I cleaned up the description of the problem and added more information more concisely.) I have a computer with 2 Raid0 Harddrives and 1 non-raided harddrives. All my harddrives are SATA. I'm a total newbie to Linux, but I installed the Fedora Operating system on this system which I had just built. (I would have had no problems with Windows this is just me trying to install and manage an operating system I have never used.) Anyway, when I was installing I chose the option which said Boot from my 1 non-raided Harddrive which was what I wanted. I want my opperating system on 1 drive and my data to be read from my Raid0 harddrives. I have a ton of data to deal with and I want the opperating system physically separate from the data. Anyway, the computer installed and everything with no problems. But when I get in there I see an Icon "Computer" I can go into that and I see "File System" inside there there are a ton of folders, Most of them have a free space size that would indicated they are located on the raid0 harddrives set. But I can't find like a "Directory" or anything where I can look and see Yeah! I got 2 logical drives one is the raided set and the other the single. So I really don't know if I'm booting off only my raided drives and nothing else is reading. How can I look at my harddrives? I mean in windows there was "My Computer" and then the various harddrives. That was cool!

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by oh smeg

Linux isn't Windows it creates 3 Partitions on any HDD that you install it to if you chose the Auto Format Option 1 has the Swap File on it another has the System Files and the last has the data files on it. With the My Computer you only open the Data Files as you [b]Do Not[/b] need access to either of the other partitions with either the swap files or System Files.

Depending on how you chose to install this OS and accomping software you could just be running off the 1 HDD or the 2 the Single Drive and the RAID Array which will be seen as 1 HDD by the system.

I hope that helps you understand how the different system works to Windows which places everything into the same partition.

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by absolutely

you should have had the opportunity then to assign that "logical volume" a "path" such as /raid. If not, you can use the mount command, something like this:
mount sdb1 /raid
(requires that the directory '/raid' already exists)
To have that drive mount automatically from the next time you restart, edit the file /etc/fstab

by dr.llvll

Like I don't know that the thing is not working. In fact I know the raid is working I just want to find out if my Singleton Non-raid Harddrive is working and which Harddrive my system is installed on. It all boots fine. If this was Windows I would just open my computer and say: "Hey, I see 2 Drive in My Computer." One must be the Raid and the other the normal." Then i would just click on the Normal, and check and see: "Hey! Windows folder is on this drive I have it installed the way I want." That's all I want to know is that I installed it correctly. It works. I just want to know that it is accessing both drives and I want to figure out which drive the system is physically installed on. I can't do something like that on Linux?

by absolutely

filesystem: /dev/sda & /dev/sdb

Yes, you can check pretty much the same thing in Linux.

by absolutely

Hard drives in Linux will be displayed in the /dev directory as hd_ (that is, hda, hdb, hdc, etc.) if they use ide bus or sd_ if they use scsi or sata. Optical drives will also begin with 'hd'. Hopefully, that's clear now.

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