Topic: Adding hard drives

[Andrew]

I just installed my e-smith server and am thoroughly impressed. I have a question though. I have the server installed on a 10 gig drive, I have a 15 gig drive that I want to use to hold all the user files--like  "/home" and I also have an 80 gig drive i want to use to setup a automatic backup system. How do i go about doing this?
I have been trying to go to http://edocs.mitel.com/ to read the guides but their seems to be a problem, because my browser never goes there. Thank you for your help

[Michael Smith]

Just because it's Christmastime I won't flame you for not having searched the forums ... so Merry Xmas & here's your link:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=5783.msg20483#msg20483

Let us know what you did & how it worked out, willya?

[Andrew]

Thank you for not flaming me.

I'm new to e-smith. in linux distro's such as mandrake/redhat, when you create a user account a directory is created in /home/username  to hold their files. so does e-smith use these things called ibays to hold the info--or is it just another name for the /home/ directory--im really confused and really wish that the documentation site was working right now

[Eric]

Here's how I added a new drive...

http://www.eric-martin.com/article.php?story=20021223001751691

[Andrew]

i attempted to mount my drive as "/home/e-smith/files"  but then all the sub directories disappeared and i really screwed my installation and starter over. can i  not change the mount point of "/home/e-smith/files" without changing something else also?

[guestHH]

when you mout the new drive at some point it means really 'new'. Your old data is still there but when you reach the mount-point you will be 'transferred' to your new drive. The old data is still there. Unmount the drive (fstab) and voila there's the old data.

Regards,
guestHH

[Andrew]

Ok i think i have it figured out now but still have one more question. I want to put all my data on the second drive, so if the operating system crashes and i format the drive, all the data will be fine--what do i want to mount this drive as then? /home  or will /home/e-smith/files/ibays work just fine?

[guestHH]

If it's pure the data within 'MS accesible shares' you want to save then .../ibays would do. .../home contains a lot of system config stuff, but if you would want them to keep, you would miss a whole lot more e.g. /etc

.../ibays for data would be fine... (except for mysql data, this is in /var/lib/mysql)

Regards,
guestHH

[Andrew]

ok-thanks for giving me a brief explanation of how the file system works. I can now attempt to get my server setup how i want it to be. Thanks