[CLUE-Tech] Question on mounting a new scsi drive

[Ken Kissinger]

That worked ...thanks for the help...

Jeff Falgout wrote:

> >>> kssngrk at ix.netcom.com 08/09/03 8:42 PM >>>
> I am new to Red Hat Linux and having a little trouble from a lack of
> understanding.
>
> I installed Red Hat on an IDE 12 gig drive with no problems.
>
> I am trying to add a second hard drive that is a 2 gig SCSI.
>
> I installed the hardware, used fdisk to create a single partition:
> /dev/sda1
>
> I used:  mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda1  to make the file system without errors.
>
> Then I have trouble trying to mount the drive, mount -t ext3 /dev/sda1
> /abc
> returns the message mount: mount point /abc does not exist.
>
> How can I create a mount point, a directory, on a new drive when I can't
> mount the drive to create a directory ?
>
> I am sure there is something simple that I am missing but I don't see it
> as yet.
>
> >>>>
>
> You just need to make the directory that you
> want to mount on the filesystem.
>
> mkdir /abc
>
> then you can run your mount command.
>
> Jeff
>
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