Topic: adding more drives

[Tino]

Ok so I admit that I know nothing about this. I just installed it right now and poked around and looked in the manual but cant find what I need. I'm trying to setup a very simple domain controller and fileserver that will serve both MAC and PC. At the moment I am trying to setup NT4 sp6a but the Services for Macintosh are not stable under load and I cannot seem to stay away from BSOD so I am giving up. Win2k Server is out of the question because its too expensive and these people dont want to pay for the license and I'm not about to suggest any alternative solutions if you know what I mean since this is a business.

I was looking into e-smith and seems like it will do what they need. Thing is that they need lots of room and I cant seem to find out how to add or partition drives if a second drive has been added and cant seem to find out how to create shared folders on other drives. Also as a backup scheme, they will be using removable IDE drives (60gig) as opposed to tape since neither myself or anyone I know has had any luck with tape unless you're talking DLT which is expensive.
Anyway I dont know I would back up to a drive either. Under NT I would just use the scheduler and use xcopy to copy and a utility called Macnames to scan the system and rename illegally named mac files on the SFM volumes to something that can be handled by NT (so it can be moved or copied to another drive).

Anyway is any of this stuff possible with E-smith or do I need to install another flavour of Linux and try and configure Samba??

Thanks guys,

Tino

[Dubois]

adding more drives.....the search button is your friend.  i have a swappable HD bay that I use for backup plan.  I tar.gz up the files to my backup HD, and rotate my other spare HD's in.

[Wietse]

Well then...

For all I know (and I really don't know a lot about this), it is very well possible to add multiple HDD's to e-smith. If I am right, they can be pointed to different i-bays which can be shared through your network any way you want. Both for Mac and Windows.

Partitioning is one of my own questions, but I am recieving more info every day about that. So I hope that will be possible too soon...

Other people have to tell you more about the HOWTO's, but I am almost sure it is all possible what you want. Good luck!

Wietse
The Netherlands

[Jeroen]

Wietse,
You might take a look at www.minddigger.com (dutch). In the handleidingen section is a dutch howto about adding an extra hd to e-smith. You might also want to take a look at the forum.

Jeroen

[sander]

I partitioned my drive with RedHat boot disk and cd rom. Used disk druid wich was simple and understandable to me (as i am mostly windows based) .

You must start the installation process and continue it to disk partitioning. then save the information and go back.

You can add parameters that on bootup mount the drive to a specific location or you can do it manually

for your information you can mount one partition to one ibay (as far as i know) So if you must specify to different users different amount of hdd they can use and you want them not to share the information with other users partitioning is in my opinion the best way to do it.

hope this helps

sander

[guestHH]

Hi all,

How about this mini-mini How-To:

Connect the new drive with this info in mind:
IDE 1 Master=hda, Slave=hdb and IDE 2 Master=hdc, Slave=hdd

Enter the console as root user.

Type ‘fdisk /dev/hdc’ on the console. (in this case our new drive is at IDE2 Master)

Create a new partition with the n option, followed by option p followed by option 1
(create new partition and make it primary partition 1)

Review it by entering 'p' as in Print partition table.

Write (save) the partition information by option 'w'

Since you've created a first partition on you new drive it will be called 'hdc1'

Now you can create the filesystem by entering: mkfs /dev/hdc1

And then you can mount it like: mount ' /dev/hdc1 /mnt/share'
 (example mountpoit)

To mount this drive automatically you have to edit /etc/fstab by adding the line:
/dev/hdc1 /mnt/share ext2 defaults 0 0

For now you have to mount it manually (until next reboot) like:
mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/share (or at any mountpoint you like)

That's it.

Hope it helps,

Regards,
guestHH