How to Mount a Portable Hard Drive in redhat linux 5.3

i have a 300 gb WD hard disk. I want to attch this portsble hard drive on my server.
I want to generate my backup tar files on this attached hard drive.
please tell me how i can do this.
my current partition is as follows:
[oracle@testing tmp]$ df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d1p2 16G 476M 14G 4% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 9.5G 4.8G 4.3G 53% /usr
/dev/cciss/c0d1p5 3.9G 137M 3.6G 4% /usr/local
/dev/cciss/c0d1p3 9.7G 172M 9.1G 2% /tmp
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 9.7G 521M 8.7G 6% /var
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 76G 43G 30G 59% /home
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 1.3T 1.1T 172G 87% /opt
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 2.0G 42M 1.8G 3% /boot
tmpfs 7.9G 4.3M 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
Edited by: user13376823 on Mar 7, 2011 11:44 AM

user13376823 wrote:
i have a 300 gb WD hard disk. I want to attch this portsble hard drive on my server.
I want to generate my backup tar files on this attached hard drive.
please tell me how i can do this.
my current partition is as follows:
[oracle@testing tmp]$ df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d1p2 16G 476M 14G 4% /
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6 9.5G 4.8G 4.3G 53% /usr
/dev/cciss/c0d1p5 3.9G 137M 3.6G 4% /usr/local
/dev/cciss/c0d1p3 9.7G 172M 9.1G 2% /tmp
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 9.7G 521M 8.7G 6% /var
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 76G 43G 30G 59% /home
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 1.3T 1.1T 172G 87% /opt
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 2.0G 42M 1.8G 3% /boot
tmpfs 7.9G 4.3M 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
Edited by: user13376823 on Mar 7, 2011 11:44 AMWhile many people here have nix skills, and I see Kamran has graciously offered to help, you need to be aware that this is an Oracle Database* forum and your question has nothing to do with Oracle databases. It would be better asked in a Linux forum. There is one located in this very family of forums, at Oracle Linux

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