Topic: Second Hard Disk

[Wesley Wood]

I have added a second hard disk for one Ibay.

I have installed/jumpered the drive.
I have deleted the existing partition, created a new one,
wrote the part. tables to the drive. all went well

I am trying to run mkfs but every time I try it tells
"/dev/hda6/ is mounted; will not make a filesystem here!"
Now I havent added any entries to /etc/fstab yet
When I run df the drive shows up as mounted on "/".

I have tried umount but it reports that the device is busy

As you can tell I am having a baptism of fire with linux.
I havent had but 70 hours of experience.

Can  someone explain how to temporarily unmount the drive so that
I may run mkfs and add the entries to /etc/fstab

Thanks

[Wesley Wood]

I am searching the boards this evening any help would be appreciated.

I dont need my hand held

Just a simple ouline........

Step 1:
Step 2:
etc.

[Kees Blokland]

/dev/hda6 is most likely on your primary disk !?

[Kelvin]

Wesley,

If you search the forums (remember to search all forums and all dates) you should get the steps you require as it has been discussed before.

As Kees said, hda_ most likely refers to your current primary SME drive (which is why it is busy !).

Kelvin

[Steve]

your second drive will likely be /dev/hdb