Topic: Hard disks/partition help

[Paul Bearne]

Hi

I am having problems added partitions to my sme server

I installed sme into a machine with 3 hard drives

sme put
/boot one hard drive
/swap on the next
/ on the last

As these are all 2g drives I would like to use the spare space

I have fdisked and made /dev/sda2/   /dev/sda1 being /boot

but when I try to format it mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda2

"no such devices or address...." error is returned

Can anybody help

Paul

I reading about mounting drives it was suggested that that drive should be mounted to /mnt/mt1 etc.
if this is done is there a way to assign space to a folder in a website ( Alias )

[Kees Blokland]

I would install the system on a single drive first, and add the 2 extra drives later.
That way you have more control.
/boot takes up approx 20Meg or something small like that, swap probably no more than 300Meg, (very much depending on your memory etc), so it seems a waste to assign a whole disk to each.
 
I would put .../files on a seperate disk  and  /ibays on another one.

Search the forums, there are some stories how to do this..

good luck..

[Paul Bearne]

Yes this would be a good idea But don't what to do a rebuild again

So why can't I just use the space left on the drive

paul