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Title: Adding mount capabilities to E-Smith
Post by: Mike Stoddart on July 07, 2000, 10:49:57 PM

Will disk mounting capabilities ever be added to the E-Smith server? I'm thinking that because E-Smith only "recognises" a single hard disk during installation, it would be useful to be able to install a second hard disk using mount via the web interface.

I'm considering installing a second hard disk into my server, but I dont want to have to re-instsall E-Smith to use it.

Thanks

Title: RE: Adding mount capabilities to E-Smith
Post by: Orville Carter on July 08, 2000, 03:05:04 AM

Mike,
I had a problem installing e-smith with two SCSI drives on my controller.
Correct me if I am wrong, but only one physical drive is allowed on e-smith.

E-smith installed without any problems only after the second scsi drive was physically
disconnected from the controller.

I would love to put three 10 gig scsi on on of my dual-processor machines.

OC

Title: RE: Adding mount capabilities to E-Smith
Post by: Mike Stoddart on July 10, 2000, 02:25:10 AM

I didnt realise there was a physical limitation with E-Smith. Is that a SCSI/EIDE/both limitation?

Title: RE: Adding mount capabilities to E-Smith
Post by: Orville Carter on July 10, 2000, 07:26:54 AM

Mike,

I did not install e-smith with IDE drives, however, I believe the same will apply.
IDE drives are not on my top-10 list. We have seen too many IDE drive failures during the past 6 to 7 years.

It may be a security issue, I guess.

Orville

Title: RE: Adding mount capabilities to E-Smith
Post by: David Barber on September 06, 2000, 07:57:56 AM

I added a 2nd SCSI disk to my e-smith box, no problem.  

1. "format /dev/sdb" (2nd scsi disk), and create your partitions using the "fdisk" option

2. "mke2fs /dev/sdb1" to create your filesystem on the new partition

3. "mkdir /work" (that's where I mounted my 2nd drive's partition)

4. "mount /dev/sdb1 /work" to actually attach it.  

Check your results with "df -k" and you should see your new partition and mount point, along with sizes total, used, etc.

5. Update "/etc/fstab" with your new partition information. (see the entries in there already for layout.

It worked for me, so it should work for you!

Good luck!

David Barber
DB Computers
Komoka, Ontario