> >On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 2:20 AM, Jason Filippou <jason.filip...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > >So I was > > just wondering whether there was any way that I could plug in my new hard > > drive and mount it on /dev/sdb
Careful! <rant> Define "new hard drive". What appears where in /dev is a function of your BIOS, the kernel, and udev. If it's IDE, ATA, or ATAPI it shows up as a /dev/hd. And those seem to be nicely mapped to IDE controller number / master / slave. Unless it's serial-ATA, of course, in which case it's a /dev/sd :-/ All SCSI, SATA, and USB are a /dev/sd -- which sd depends on what your BIOS sees first at boot. My (Dell) servers look at the USB ports first, so a USB stick becomes /dev/sda. Then it looks for SATA, and finally SCSI. The Sun box looks at SCSI first... So when my grub config said to load / off /dev/sda<n> (Debian lenny installer default), and I accidentally left a USB stick in one of the ports, the machine wouldn't boot. I don't remember if (hd0) was hosed as well. Oh. And the /dev directory is created by udev these days. It can name things anything it wants. </rant> It's much more repeatable to specify the filesystem's UUID (vol_id /dev/sd??) instead of the device node. In both grub's config and in fstab. I've never tried it, but I don't think you can mount anything on /dev/sdb -- that's a device node, not a filesystem node. But you can mount /dev/sdb<n> on /mnt... -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
