Mounting hard drive

[ockertom]

Apologise if this is the 50,000 how do I? But im a little confused, I am trying to mnt a 250 sata drive using this command

mount -t /dev/sdb1 /media/shares but it keeps saying I must specify file type? well its is ext3 format
I have made that share folder in my media because that is where the other gear is if that makes sense. I have used mandriva and ubuntu, they have a app that will mnt the drive for you, but I have searched through all the menus and cant find anything that looks like it would do the job.
And I suppose once mounted do a as root: chown -R usr /medai/shares will transfer the disk to me?

Just got me scratchin my head, did try to read about it and got dizzy, getting old lol

[bluesdog]

try

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mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /media/shares

If you want to mount it on boot, add a line to /etc/fstab something like

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/dev/sdb1     /media/shares        ext3 defaults,user                0      2