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Acroplex
02-22-2010, 09:39 PM
When trying to mount a secondary drive via WHM (to access the data) the only option appears to be "partition, format and mount" - is there a way to mount the drive without partition & format?

cPanelDavidG
02-23-2010, 11:18 AM
When trying to mount a secondary drive via WHM (to access the data) the only option appears to be "partition, format and mount" - is there a way to mount the drive without partition & format?

That feature is intended for adding new drives to the system. For a drive that already contains data, you should use the the command line's mount command.

Acroplex
02-23-2010, 03:56 PM
Thanks David, indeed I did. Pearhaps a nice future feature would be to mount existing partitions :)

cPanelDavidG
02-23-2010, 04:03 PM
Thanks David, indeed I did. Pearhaps a nice future feature would be to mount existing partitions :)

Sounds like a good idea. You may want to start a conversation about that on our feature request forums so our developers can correspond with any follow-up questions and we can all discuss how best to implement the ability to mount existing partitions. This will also allow you to be notified when this feature is implemented.