Mount hard drive

** follow the given instruction  :-- root@server [~]# fdisk -l Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 14593 117218241 83 Linux Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/sda2 14 535 4192965 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 536 19457 151990965 83 Linux Once detected, /dev/hda1, just mount it using mount /dev/hda1 /backup assuming that the backup folder is already in place root@server [/]# mount /dev/hda1 /backup/ root@server [/]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 141G 16G 118G 12% / /dev/sda1 99M 11M 83M 12% /boot tmpfs 1008M 0 1008M 0% /dev/shm /usr/tmpDSK 485M 11M 449M 3% /tmp /dev/hda1 111G 188M 105G 1% /backup So the secondary drive has been mounted as /backup. Now to make it permanent you will need to edit /etc/fstab. /dev/hda1 /backup ext3 defaults 1 1 *********** Mounted and completed. [Note] :-- Please keep this information in your KB for future reference