Topic: Data on 2nd Hard Drive

[Laurence Goodman]

I like to keep data on a hard drive that is separate from the operating system.

As a Linux and e-smith newbie, is there a way to:

1. install e-smith so that the i-bays are created on a 2nd hard drive?
2. add a 2nd hard drive for i-bays to an existing installation?
3. in either case, can the second drive be formatted as FAT32?

Regards

[Dan Brown]

Laurence Goodman wrote:

    Is there any particular reason you posted this three times?

> 1. install e-smith so that the i-bays are created on a 2nd
> hard drive?
> 2. add a 2nd hard drive for i-bays to an existing installation?

    Both of these are possible, but involve a fair amount of tweaking.  The second should be easier than the first.  General Linux documentation (like on linuxnewbie.org) should help you out here.

> 3. in either case, can the second drive be formatted as FAT32?

    I guess it's possible, but you'd lose support for some important Linux features like file permissions.  It'd be much better to format it as ext2.