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How to Mount a Portable Hard Drive in redhat linux 5.3

user13376823Mar 7 2011 — edited Mar 9 2011
i have a 300 gb WD hard disk. I want to attch this portsble hard drive on my server.

I want to generate my backup tar files on this attached hard drive.

please tell me how i can do this.


my current partition is as follows:

[oracle@testing tmp]$ df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d1p2 16G 476M 14G 4% /

/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 9.5G 4.8G 4.3G 53% /usr

/dev/cciss/c0d1p5 3.9G 137M 3.6G 4% /usr/local

/dev/cciss/c0d1p3 9.7G 172M 9.1G 2% /tmp

/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 9.7G 521M 8.7G 6% /var

/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 76G 43G 30G 59% /home

/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 1.3T 1.1T 172G 87% /opt

/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 2.0G 42M 1.8G 3% /boot

tmpfs 7.9G 4.3M 7.9G 1% /dev/shm

Edited by: user13376823 on Mar 7, 2011 11:44 AM
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