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Title: precaution questions - continued
Post by: schrambo on June 22, 2004, 08:17:39 AM

Afternoon.

I"m ready and raring to wipe my 2kserver box and just use SME but I have a question

I have a 20gb hdd (for install) and a 120gb storage hdd full of crap. Backing the data isn't going to be difficult (most of it already is) but what my concern is what happens to the 120gb when I install SME? Will it format it automatically to ext3 or what?

Title: precaution questions - continued
Post by: NickR on June 22, 2004, 10:20:07 AM

The SME will install to the first logical disk (C: in your case).  If you want to be *really* sure, disconnect the 120Gb drive for the install.

Title: precaution questions - continued
Post by: Anonymous on June 22, 2004, 01:14:30 PM

yeah I was thinking that.

Think i'll just ensure I have recent backups of the drive, install SME then restore the files onto the 120gb hdd and then just share the drive with samba. Should be simple enough :)

thanks for the help.

Title: precaution questions - continued
Post by: schrambo on June 23, 2004, 02:59:30 PM

Okay I wiped off win2k server and SME is now up and running on the server.

The install didn't automatically detect and get formatted to ext3 or nothing so I did that with fdisk. So now the 120gb hdd is /dev/hdd and I created it to be a primary partition (hdd1).

Heres my next series of questions.
would this be the correct /etc/fstab?

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/dev/hdd1    /mnt/hdd   defaults    0 0

Should i change anything? and howcome its reporting the typical

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wrong fs type, bad options, bad superblock on /dev/hdd1, or too many mounted filesystems

I plan to make the 120gb hdd the drive to store all personal data on. And not have user quotas on hda at all. Any help?
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Title: precaution questions - continued
Post by: schirrms on June 23, 2004, 08:53:15 PM

Hi,

I think this link is the exact answer to your question

(take me a 20 second long research on contribs.org :-D )
http://no.longer.valid/phpwiki/index.php/extra%20hard%20disk

HTH,

Title: precaution questions - continued
Post by: Anonymous on June 24, 2004, 04:36:31 AM

ahh thanks alot schirrms. Usially i'm pretty good at searching forums for already answered stuff but this time I must have just slipped by me.

thanks again man. i'll report back on how it goes :)