USB hard drive and CD-RW

[David Hacker]

You need to see what device they are assigned to first.  Hard drives 
are usually /dev/hd? if they are ata and scsi hard drives, USB and 
firewire hard drives are usually /dev/sd?.  You can look at 
/var/log/messages to see the boot text and get the device from there or 
you can use pdisk from a terminal and print out all partiton maps and 
find out from there.  Once you find out what device and partition 
number was assigned to the disk you want to mount you need to decide 
where you want to mount it.  Usually they are mounted in /mnt.  You can 
open a terminal and su to become root, then cd /mnt and mkdir usb or 
mkdir macos or mkdir ??? for whatever you want the mount point to be.  
Then from the command line just type mount /dev/hd? /mnt/usb for 
instance.  Once you are able to mount and access the disk you can add 
it to your fstab file then you just have to type mount /mnt/usb or 
whatever your mount point is.
Good Luck,
David C. Hacker, DVM
On Jun 27, 2004, at 6:48 PM, Jason Warm wrote:

> Could someone please give me some brief instructions on mounting USB 
> hard drive and CD-RW.
>
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> Jason Warm
> jwarm@miasys.com
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