Mounting a second HDD, Still.....

[Stefan Bruda]

Hi.

At 14:47 -0400 on 2003-10-2 mascarasnake wrote:
 >
 > mount -t hfs /dev/sda /mnt/macos
 > 
 > and I receive:
 > mount: mount point /mnt macos does not exists

Well, create it. ;-) Do as root:

mkdir /mnt/macos

It is also the case that /dev/sda is a whole device, which you cannot
mount.  Indeed, what you mount is a partition, not a device--even for
a disk having only one (user-usable) partition.

Looking at the partition table below, I believe that what you need to
do is

mount -t hfs /dev/sda6 /mnt/macos

 > this is my fstab file (the only thing I've added to it is the las sda
 > line):
 > 
 > /dev/hde8	/ 		ext3 	defaults 1 1
 > none 		/dev/pts 	devpts  gid=5,mode=620 0 0
 > none 		/proc 		proc 	defaults 0 0
 > none 		/dev/shm 	tmpfs 	defaults        0 0
 > /dev/hde6 	swap 		swap 	defaults        0 0
 > /dev/cdrom 	/mnt/cdrom 	udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
 > /dev/sda 	/mnt/macos 	hfs 	noauto,user,rw  0 0

Same idea here: you do not want to mount /dev/sda, but one partition
(number 6 it would seem), so the last line should be:

/dev/sda6 	/mnt/macos 	hfs 	noauto,user,rw  0 0

You should be then in business.

 > This is the partition list for the sda:
 > 
 > Partition map (with 512 byte blocks) on '/dev/sda'
 > #:                type name             length   base    ( size )
 > 1: Apple_partition_map Apple                63 @ 1
 > 2:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh            54 @ 64
 > 3:      Apple_Driver43*Macintosh            74 @ 118
 > 4:  Apple_Driver_IOKit Macintosh           512 @ 192
 > 5:       Apple_Patches Patch Partition     512 @ 704
 > 6:           Apple_HFS "stiffy"        2133072 @ 1216    (  1.0G)
 > 7:          Apple_Free Extra                 7 @ 2134288

Stefan

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