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Title: How does SME automatically allocate multiple hard drives?
Post by: Jason Arthurs on October 09, 2003, 01:48:10 AM

I setup an SME 5.6 server on a machine with a 3.2Gb primary and a 10Gb secondary drive. The entry in fstab suggests /dev/hdb1 is allocated to swap.

Has it given over my 10Gb drive to swapfile!?

I am currently putting together a purpose built machine to migrate my experimental server across to and was wondering. If I have a 10Gb primary and 60Gb secondary drive is there any way in the default install I can ensure the 60Gb is kept free for i-bay data? How does the install partition it by default?

Regards,
Jason.

Title: Re: How does SME automatically allocate multiple hard drives
Post by: Michael Smith on October 09, 2003, 02:26:11 AM

Disconnect the 60GB drive.  Install on the 10GB.  Search the forums for how to add a second hard drive.

Title: Re: How does SME automatically allocate multiple hard drives
Post by: Charlie Brady on October 09, 2003, 02:29:43 AM

Michael Smith wrote:

> Disconnect the 60GB drive.  Install on the 10GB.

Or install 6.0beta3, which will ignore a second drive when installing unless you are setting up a mirrored pair.

Charlie

Title: Re: How does SME automatically allocate multiple hard drives
Post by: Tom Keiser on October 09, 2003, 08:49:13 AM

Great new feature for those of us who like separate boot drives and data drives.  Thanks, Charlie.

Tom

Title: Re: How does SME automatically allocate multiple hard drives
Post by: Jimbo on October 09, 2003, 07:23:50 PM

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