Topic: precaution questions - continued

[schrambo]

Afternoon.

I"m ready and raring to wipe my 2kserver box and just use SME but I have a question

I have a 20gb hdd (for install) and a 120gb storage hdd full of crap. Backing the data isn't going to be difficult (most of it already is) but what my concern is what happens to the 120gb when I install SME? Will it format it automatically to ext3 or what?

[NickR]

The SME will install to the first logical disk (C: in your case).  If you want to be *really* sure, disconnect the 120Gb drive for the install.

[Anonymous]

yeah I was thinking that.

Think i'll just ensure I have recent backups of the drive, install SME then restore the files onto the 120gb hdd and then just share the drive with samba. Should be simple enough

thanks for the help.

[schrambo]

Okay I wiped off win2k server and SME is now up and running on the server.

The install didn't automatically detect and get formatted to ext3 or nothing so I did that with fdisk. So now the 120gb hdd is /dev/hdd and I created it to be a primary partition (hdd1).

Heres my next series of questions.
would this be the correct /etc/fstab?

/dev/hdd1    /mnt/hdd   defaults    0 0

Should i change anything? and howcome its reporting the typical

wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1, or too many mounted filesystems

I plan to make the 120gb hdd the drive to store all personal data on. And not have user quotas on hda at all. Any help?
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[schirrms]

Hi,

I think this link is the exact answer to your question

(take me a 20 second long research on contribs.org )
http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/extra%20hard%20disk

HTH,

[Anonymous]

ahh thanks alot schirrms. Usially i'm pretty good at searching forums for already answered stuff but this time I must have just slipped by me.

thanks again man. i'll report back on how it goes