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Title: IBays on seccond IDE drive
Post by: Technocod on August 05, 2002, 12:50:29 AM: Is it possible to add a seccond IDE hard drive to an existing E-Smith server, and set any new IBays to use the space on this, without having to reinstall?
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive
Post by: Nathan Fowler on August 05, 2002, 06:12:29 AM: Yes, it is quite easy. Simply install the drive and modify /etc/fstab to point to the partition of the new drive.

Hope this helped,
Nathan
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive
Post by: Johan on August 05, 2002, 08:32:39 PM: Hello, Technocod,

Read the follow topic off the forum

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=12043.msg45225#msg45225

This all what you need i think

Grtz

Johan
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive
Post by: Technocod on August 05, 2002, 10:41:07 PM: Thankyou both for your posts - I'll try this out. I had tried to search the forums for my answer, but I guess I need to refine my search technique !

Thanks again
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive - oops, spoke too soon..
Post by: Technocod on August 06, 2002, 01:25:05 AM: The thread says;

'look for the row

"LABEL=/boot "

Change here the row for a Ibay

example (in the orginal is it /dev/hdc1 /.....etc)

/dev/hdd1 /home/e-smith/files/ibays/mp3/html ext2 defaults 1 2

save the file with F10'

But my /etc/fstab contains;

LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2

rather than /dev/hdc1/....etc - as the post suggests.

You'll need to bear with me here, I know nothing much about Linux (which is what attracted me to esmith), so where am I going wrong? Do I just replace the seccond /boot for /dev/hdd1 or whatever the new drive becomes? TIA
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive - oops, spoke too soon..
Post by: Nathan Fowler on August 06, 2002, 02:04:50 AM: Paste the contents of your existing /etc/fstab and tell me the name of the partition you are going to use for your new ibays folder and I'll give you the entry you need.

Thanks,
Nathan
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive - oops, spoke too soon..
Post by: Meert on August 06, 2002, 02:03:15 PM: A quick related question:
what happens to files already in the original /home/e-smith/files/ibays/mp3/html folder once you mount a second IDE drive?
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive - oops, spoke too soon..
Post by: Nathan Fowler on August 06, 2002, 05:25:55 PM: You would need to copy them to a temp folder and once mounted, copy them back to their original location. I would recommend doing the following:

cd /home/e-smith/files
tar --create --gzip --file=/home/e-smith/files/ibays.tgz ibays
Then, once you have completed your changes and updated your mount point:

cd /home/e-smith/files
tar -zxvf ibays.tgz
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive - oops, spoke too soon..
Post by: Meert on August 06, 2002, 05:59:20 PM: thanks, now if only I didn't want to do this with my movies ibay with 15 gig of movies :(
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive - oops, spoke too soon..
Post by: Technocod on August 07, 2002, 12:48:45 AM: My fstab file;

File: fstab Col 0 623 bytes 100%

LABEL=/ / ext2 usrquota,grpquota
1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
#none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

The drive I'll be adding will be the primary slave, and will be formatted to one big partition - any ideas?
Title: Re: IBays on seccond IDE drive - oops, spoke too soon..
Post by: Nathan Fowler on August 07, 2002, 12:55:22 AM: Add this line:
/dev/hd(X) /home/e-smith/files/ibays ext2 usrquota,grpquota 1,3

Where (X) is the partition number, such as /dev/hdb5, etc.

Hope this helped,
Nathan