Topic: How does SME automatically allocate multiple hard drives?

[Jason Arthurs]

I setup an SME 5.6 server on a machine with a 3.2Gb primary and a 10Gb secondary drive. The entry in fstab suggests /dev/hdb1 is allocated to swap.

Has it given over my 10Gb drive to swapfile!?

I am currently putting together a purpose built machine to migrate my experimental server across to and was wondering. If I have a 10Gb primary and 60Gb secondary drive is there any way in the default install I can ensure the 60Gb is kept free for i-bay data? How does the install partition it by default?

Regards,
Jason.

[Michael Smith]

Disconnect the 60GB drive.  Install on the 10GB.  Search the forums for how to add a second hard drive.

[Charlie Brady]

Michael Smith wrote:

> Disconnect the 60GB drive.  Install on the 10GB.

Or install 6.0beta3, which will ignore a second drive when installing unless you are setting up a mirrored pair.

Charlie

[Tom Keiser]

Great new feature for those of us who like separate boot drives and data drives.  Thanks, Charlie.

Tom

[Jimbo]

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