Topic: Does SME 6 support multiple harddrives?

[Deckard]

I was reading through posts dating back to 2001 in the E-smith forums where people were asking about future support for multiple harddrives in SME.  I didn't see the option during the initial setup, but if I needed to install 2 or more harddrives in the future, is it possible?

I read a great tutorial @ justlinux.com
http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Hardware/Adding_a_Hard_Drive_in_Linux.html

Let me know if any of you are using 2 or more harddrives (not RAID 1)

Deckard

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[Paul]

Here is a good starting point for you:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=8723.msg32704#msg32704

Also, put "second hard drive" or "additional hard drive"  in a search and you will come up with multiple solutions.

Good Luck
Paul

[Anonymous]

That link doesn't work, and a search only brings up a few threads.  Is there anywhere else I can start on my quest to add a 200gb drive to my 30gb main drive?

Thanks

[RonMx]

Take a look at Michiel Blotwijk's excellent how-to

How to add an extra hard disk to a SME server

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

Worked for me! Wish I had a 200gig drive to add in there, though

[Mntsnow]

The only thing I will add to this as Michiel did a great job on the Tut is under 6.0 you can just go ahead and format it ext3 from the get go and not have to bother with the tune2fs -j section. other than that it worked great for me.

[jpeters]

I think a key word from the tutorial listed above is adding an additional drive to AN EXISTING server.

Booting up a PC with 4 drives to install SME will not get the desired results. Install with one drive then add additional as per the tutorial.

I currently have 4 drives ranging from 40gig to 190gig on my SME box. (Have an IDE PCI controller ATA133 that came with the largest drive so I theoretically could fit three more before having to drop out the cdrom)