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You will do this one of two ways: 1) If you want it to mount when the machine boots and hold the mount open forever you can simply add the mount point to /etc/fstab 2) If you want it to mount only when you access the drive you will utilize this using autofs. Depending upon which version of Linux and what type of drive you are trying to mount you will do this in a few different ways.

Yes, in most, if not all configuration files found under /etc # are comments. The one drive you just posted is the floppy drive on your machine. What type of drive are you trying to add? You can run the command % fdisk -l to display all the drives and partitions the linux machine can see. Typically you might see /dev/hda1 This would be the first ide drive (identified by the a) and the first partition on the drive (identified by the 1). If you run the fdisk -l command and identified the drive/partition I can help more. ..corey

/dev/sdb means that it is the second scsi disk (identified by the b) but you need to have partitions on the drive to mount it. Have you partitioned and formatted this disk yet so you can use it?

The first partition on /dev/sdb is called /dev/sdb1. I suppose you will want to re-partition the disk to change the filesystem to ext3 then initialize the filesystem on it and then you can mount it. You can use fdisk or cfdisk /dev/sdb to edit partitions (change partition type to ext3) and when you're done (sometimes you need to reboot after changing the partition table..) mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1 (this will create a new ext3 filesystem on /dev/sdb1) Make sure you use the correct device names otherwise you can damage data elsewhere.