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Title: Second Hard drive
Post by: faraway on October 25, 2001, 04:50:32 AM

Hey there all,,

I have just installed Esmith 5 to my little server at home, it has to 20g hard rives in it. I run df -h and get

[root@trust /]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6              18G  488M   17G   3% /
/dev/hda1              15M  2.6M   11M  18% /boot
[root@trust /]#


How do i install the second hard drive ? I have read a forum that said run
fdisk /dev/hdd, when i run that i get "Unable to open /dev/hdd"


Can oneone give me some idea's ?

Title: Re: Second Hard drive
Post by: Kelvin on October 25, 2001, 12:24:46 PM

Hi,

You'll need to identify the second hdd first. From the console, use dmesg | more and scroll down till you see the hard drives (ie. hda, hdb etc.)

As a generalisation, If your hard drives are IDE, they are called hdx where x is usually a for primary master, b for primary slave, etc). SCSI drives are usually sda, sdb, etc..

Assuming you have an IDE drive connected as Primary Slave, you probably have hdb instead of hdd in your system and so try using fdisk /dev/hdb instead.

Good luck !

Kelvin