quick response on a server issue pls

maransekar

I just want to find out how to see the second hard drive in my linux server through shell prompt.

i did "cd /" which took me to the root and i can all the home, usr, var and other folders but how do i see both the hard drives?

many thanks

piersk

depending on the flavour of linux, have a look in the "/dev" folder

maransekar

well many thanks for that i was able to find it in "mnt" folder. But i have new issue if u can help me please.. and its very urgent. my server is down i need to do this quickly to get it up and running.

when i try to use cp command in shell prompt to copy a folder its returning "cp: omitting directory 'foldername' "

quick reply would be really helpful

many thanks

archangel_617b

man cp

... It will tell you to specify -R (or -r) to copy recursively which is required for directories.

yelvington

Old DOS-style visible device names are not meaningful in Unix-like filesystems, which present a unified tree view.

A device (/dev/hda1, /dev/hda2, et cetera) can be mounted anywhere. On one of my systems, /home is /dev/hdb1, but I don't have to know that. I just refer to /home, and if next week it gets changed (because I bought a third big hard drive), nothing is really different from an end user perspective (just a lot more space available). /home is always /home.

It's customary to use /mnt to mount temporary, removable devices, such as cdroms, floppies, et cetera. But they could be mounted anywhere.

If you run the "mount" command with no args, it will report on what physical devices are mapped to what nodes in the filesystem tree.

Remote filesystems also can be mounted anywhere, through smbmount (Microsoft-style CIFS shares), nfsmount (Sun's Network File System), and similar utilities for Netware and Appleshare. In other words, you can mount file space that is in a Windows or a Macintosh elsewhere on the network. And it just looks like the Unix filesystem.