I got a server with two hard drives. I didn't think I would need the second, but now I do. How do I access the second drive? Also, how do I see how much space is left on both drives?

Thanks in advance.

You have, probably, already monted second hdd.

You can check it with "mount" command.

"df -h" will give you free disk space...

Good luck.

This is what I got. I have not idea what this all means.

# mount
/dev/sda3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)

# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 66G 2.9G 60G 5% /
/dev/sda1 99M 15M 80M 16% /boot
none 1007M 0 1007M 0% /dev/shm

Looks like you only have one HD with any mounted partitions. Try "fdisk -l" to see your partitions of all your drives, mounted and not. I would be willing to bet your second HD is /dev/sdb for the physical device, and probably all one partition.

Here is what I got....

Disk /dev/sda: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 268 2048287+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 269 8924 69529320 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 73.4 GB, 73407820800 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 8924 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 8924 71681998+ 83 Linux

Yep, you have /dev/sdb1 which is one large partition. To use it you would need to mount it. Create a directory whereaver you want the mountpoint to be (/home2 for example) and then mount it there. Most likely the command would be (using my example):

mount -t ext2 /dev/sdb1 /home2

To make sure it mounts after a reboot, you would add the appropriate line in /etc/fstab.

Thx. What does "mount" mean / do BTW?

I got one of this:

none 1007M 0 1007M 0% /dev/shm

What is its ?

Can you paste the command that you were trying to fire in??

Ok, I did the mount command. But it only says 50% is available. how do I get the whole 100%?


# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 66G 2.9G 60G 5% /
/dev/sda1 99M 15M 80M 16% /boot
none 1007M 0 1007M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sdb1 68G 32G 33G 50% /home2

hmm...

Look at what's on there. Normally that second drive should be empty. Sounds like someone forgot to wipe it before putting it in your machine.

You're right, has a bunch of crap on it -lol.