media storage challenge

Does /data2 exist? You can only mount filesystems to mountpoints that
already exist. Traditionally, miscellaneous filesystems are mounted at
mountpoints under /mnt or /media unless they're wanted anywhere else in
particular.
Assuming such, you want:

sudo mkdir /mnt/data2
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda8 /media/data2

Which will give you access to the filesystem in the
directory /media/data2. If you want it anywhere else,
substitute /media/data2 for where you want it, but make sure the
directory already exists.
If it's only you using it, I'd be tempted to mount it as a directory
under your home directory:

sudo mkdir ~username/data2
sudo mount -t ext3 /dev/sda8 ~username/data2

But replace 'username' with your actual user name on the PC. You will
likely also need/want to make it owned by you:

sudo chown -R username ~username/data2

You should, however, enter it into /etc/fstab if you want the mount to
be persistent across reboots. See
<a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab" title="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab</a>

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