I AM A NEWBIE I would like to mount an extra drive for viewing, it already has another solaris operating system on it. If I use newfs it wants to change the contents. I tried mount but i guess idid not have the proper syntax. ( mount -r c0t0s0d0s1) I think this is what I typed.... I have been reading the forum and it seems noone else has this issue or is it too simple for Me to dedeuce? I sometimes fail to see the obvious.... Help Anyone?

I also have similar problem. I just got a netra x1 server and trying to install additional harddrive. - Can i use my secondary drive IDE from a PC without formating it so i can still use all the docs - Not sure what exactly i need to do to make it avaialble in the directory. Thanks, ot

Hi, if it has a UFS file system then do the following: Make a temporary mount point in the root dir to use, eg: mkdir mymount then mount /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 /mymount (you don't need the -F ufs argument as it's most likely UFS anyhow). Change c0t0d0s0 to whatever you need. s0 should be the root partition. I take it this is a one off. If you want to keep the drive in the system and use it upon reboot, you will need to edit your /etc/vfstab file to include the disk/slice and the mount point to be mounted automatically upon boot.

Also a reply to otong: You won't be able to mount a PC-DOS formatted drive. The best thing you can do is back the stuff up to a CD-ROM or another media, then format the drive for use with your netra. Once you've done that and it's mounted, copy your documents to wherever you want them. (You could also put the docs onto another machine and ftp them over). I'm assuming you're ok on formatting the secondary drive to your requirements and filling in the vfstab entries here :) You could of course store the documents on a PC attached to the network and access them from the netra by using samba.