How to mount second drive

[clayton rollins]

On May 16, 2004, "Phil Thomson" <philthom at freeshell.org> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>Well, I got FreeBSD installed on my PC, but I can't figure out how to
>mount my second hard drive and have it automount each time I boot. I have
>a 3 GB drive on which I have the system installed, but I have a second 5
>GB drive I want to use as well. Do I just add a line to /etc/fstab? If so,
>what should it say? I would like the 2nd drive to mount somewhere in /mnt,
>which I guess is the usual location. TIA for any info.
>
>Phil
>

Hi Phil,

Before I say anything else, I should say that this list is not for
technical questions/advice. All questions should be sent to
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org. (More to the point, I'm not
allowed to answer your question here, so no answers will be
found in this message.)

I am allowed to help you find proper documentation. The
handbook has a section describing mount and fstab:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mount-unmount.html

Additionally, I found the man pages well-written.

You might also research doing this through sysinstall, if
you're adding a brand new disk. (Write -questions for advice
as to whether this is appropriate; I'll just mention it as I
found it easy when first starting out.)

If you continue to have problems, feel free to write
freebsd-questions at . However, you should probably include
more info. about exactly what you're doing. Some questions
I would ask: is the disk formatted? if so, what format?
do you understand the partition (slice) information for the disk,
or is that possibly what you're having problems with? what
commands have you tried/what messages did you get?

Best regards,
Clayton

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