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Installing an additional Hard Drive

Matt Thompson

Installing an additional Hard Drive
« on: May 16, 2003, 07:36:11 PM »
Hi,
As someone who is not too fimilar with Linux (and never installed a new HD on a linux system) I am posting this here in the hope that someone may be able to cast an eye over it and make comment. Both from a linux view poitn and e-smith. :o)
I have searched around the forum and web for information on this and looking in the e-smith documentation and not found anything useful (feel free to correct me if there is info I have missed!). So I have picked a people's comments in other areas to get an idea of what to do...
I added the new disk, fdisked it to one partition (hc1) and mounted this partition to the files directory of an ibay.
It seems this is all that is needed, the directory is available on the network with windows reporting a lot of free space :o). Though windows is also reporting that there is 2.79Gb used, no idea why as there is nothing on it!
All in all not too much (or different from other systems), but if anyone knows of anything I have missed I'd like to know. Or if e-smith is going to complain about having a hard drive mounted to one of the ibay directories! :o)
Thanks for reading,
Matt

Nathan Fowler

Re: Installing an additional Hard Drive
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2003, 10:21:27 PM »
Everything you did looks fine, and there shouldn't be any issues.  I've done something similar.  Did you create an entry in /etc/fstab, I didn't see where you did, or are you issuing the mount command from /etc/rc.d/rc.local?

Ray Mitchell

Re: Installing an additional Hard Drive
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2003, 03:26:30 AM »
If you search on "second hard drive", including the quotes, and search for all dates, you will find lots of posts.
Ray

Matt Thompson

Re: Installing an additional Hard Drive
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2003, 02:54:58 PM »
aha - lots more info there. I guess the quotes make a difference when searching.

I figure the only thing left to do is add the mount info to the fstab so on reboot all works ok... (I haven't been able to reboot at the mo as the server is being used now!)
How important are the fourth (fs_mntops) and fifth fields (fs_freq)? I went for defaults and 1 respectively (mainly as i saw that someone else had done that and nothing rang home as important...)

Thanks for the feedback,
Matt