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From: terry@spcvxb.spc.edu (Terry Kennedy, Operations Mgr.)
Subject: Re: Adding a second drive to a system
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Date: Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:52:06 GMT

In article <01bbbeac$55b1f940$655be426@Home.lunartech.com>, "Darryl A. Brown" <Brown@Lunartech.com> writes:
> Next I did a "newfs /dev/sd0h" but when I tried to mount /exmp it tells me
> there is no such file or directory.  I know the I have missed a step but I
> don't know where.  I have looked through the man pages and cannot find what
> I am doing wrong.

  You need to create a directory for the mount point before you can mount
anything there:

# mkdir /exmp

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