Topic: Adding a HDD for Ibays

[DC]

Hlo,

I'm running SME v 5.5. I wonder if it's possible to add a 40 gb HDD... and mount it in such a way as to provide space for all Ibays?

I have seen a couple posts saying it's ok to do this for an individual Ibay but I wonder if it would work as a blanket solution for all of them.

Also any info someone could provide on just how to do it would be great...even a point in the right direction would help.

Thanks all

[guestHH]

Hi,

Yes, just make sure you mount the second hdd at:
/home/e-smith/files/ibays


From:
http://www.star-support.com/downloads/mitel/contrib/Linux-HA/SME%20High%20Availability%20How-To.html
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Now we’re ready to install the second Hard disk. Power down the servers and physically install the drive on the second IDE channel as Master Drive. Normally IDE 1 Master=hda, Slave=hdb and IDE 2 Master=hdc, Slave=hdd. So in our case the new drive will be device /dev/hdc.

You can also use a drive with data on them. Just connect it like explained above, and continue with preparing the mount point below.

New Drive without existing data:

We will only make 1 partition for the whole drive although more are possible. We’re going to use fdisk to partition and prepare the new drive so type fdisk /dev/hdc on the console.

§         delete all current partitions with option d followed by the partition number.

§         create a new partition with the n option, followed by option p followed by option 1

§         write the partition information by option w

§         create a the filesystem on your new partition  mkfs –ext2 /dev/hdc1

 

Preparing the mount point

We will use /home/e-smith/files/ibays/data/files as the mount point  for our drive. To prepare it cd to the directory /home/e-smith/files/ibays/data

enter: chown root.shared files

enter: chmod 0775 files (or different permissions according to your wishes)
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- edit fstab to enter the extra hdd and make it available at boot time


Hope it helps a bit.

Regards,
guestHH

[keith]

i added a /dev/hdb1 to fstab,

/dev/hdb1               /home/e-smith/files/ibays ext2  defaults       1 2

but any ibays i create on the device are visible but not accesible by windows users

smb.conf for this is:
   comment = a testing place
   path = /home/e-smith/files/ibays/prueba/files
   read only = no
   writable = yes
   printable = no
   inherit permissions = yes
   create mode = 0664

the user directory and the "primary" are both accessible, writeable etc..   *but* they are on /dev/hdb1

[Chad Self]

Keith said:

   smb.conf for this is:
   comment = a testing place
   path = /home/e-smith/files/ibays/prueba/files
   read only = no
   writable = yes
   printable = no
   inherit permissions = yes
   create mode = 0664

Two Questions:
   Why the additional directories (after ibays)?
   Where within the conf file do I insert the text?

[Chad Self]

I can't find my ibays after mounting the new drive and rebooting.

Here's my /etc/fstab:

LABEL=/                 /                       ext2    usrquota,grpquota      $
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner    0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/sda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/sdb /home/e-smith/files/ibays ext2 defaults 1 2

but when I try to cd into my ibays dir, bnothing is there.  What happened to my old ibays?
How can I transfer them to the new drive?

Thanks