Topic: Information bays from another harddrive

[spook]

I'm currently running SME server on my test box, and It's running just great. There is only one thing stopping me from changing my home server from SuSE 10 to SME server... I have a harddrive just for storage (250gigs, music, drivers etc.) that I need to share with my local network. How do I set up an i-bay to share a certain directory (well, the entire disk) with all hosts on my local network?

Oh, and I'm danish, so if my spelling and/or grammar sucks, thats why.

Kind regards
Spook

[Jon_Reynolds]

Hello,

Make an ibay and do a soft link 'ln -s' to where the drive is mounted. Or, add the drive and mount it in the /home/e-smith/files/ibay. Here is a link that I think will help you.

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs//mblotwijk/HowToGuides/AddExtraHardDisk.htm

Hope that helps,

Jon

[gordonr]

Oh, and I'm danish, so if my spelling and/or grammar sucks, thats why.

If your post counts as poor English in Denmark, could we have some of your teachers? I wish that my rudimentary French and German could be even half as fluent...

[spook]

Here is a link that I think will help you.

http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs//mblotwijk/HowToGuides/AddExtraHardDisk.htm

I had already read that how-to, but I'm not 100% sure on how excatly to do things, and how much of the guide I need to follow. Since I already have all my stuff on the disk, I don't need to format or partition it. Or at least I hope so. It's sitting in my SuSE 10 server, running ext2 (As far as I remember), just one big partition. I've only been using linux for about 6 months, and I am uncertain about whether or not I can just physically move a disk from one computer to anoter. Don't know if there will be some permission-problems?

If your post counts as poor English in Denmark, could we have some of your teachers? Smile I wish that my rudimentary French and German could be even half as fluent...

  Thanks! I only use my english for the occasional forum posting, so I'm glad to hear that I'm not completely incoherent!

[loejf]

Hi.
I have done the same thing, with a disk already containing data. I didn´t use the symbolic link solution, couldn´t get it to work.
So I choosed to mount the disk directly at the folder. So in my fstab I have added:

/dev/hdc1               /home/e-smith/files/ibays/jukebox/files ext3

And it workes ok.

Du kan få det på dansk, hvis du hellere vil det ))