Re: [SLE] adding a hard drive to a all ready established system
I installed the drive the bios recognized it but i don't know how to see what is on it. Or to mount it or create a partion on it...
In a message dated Sat, 21 Apr 2001 3:42:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Tor Sigurdsson
I am wanting to add another hard drive to my suse 7.0 system. Is there anything that I need to do to make it recognize it in the OS?
Thanks Joe Greene
Add the drive to your IDE/SCSI chain, fdisk it to create partitions, mke2fs or mkreiserfs the partitions, create a mount point ( mkdir ) and mount them :) Easy as pie - -tosi -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE64eMX6mRH+PEpr2YRArZqAJkBvE1cqpgwv7DxhfgWMnZTZosJtwCfer2t 6iB62c0dm7MkHMef32dXs2U= =fPVN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq and the archives at http://lists.suse.com
Hi Joe If reconised in your bios then you should see that your drive is labelled something like this: hdb: Maxtor ATA DISK drive (if SCSI sdb instead of hdb for an ide drive) when you boot. To check this enter dmesg | more in a console. You need to then create a partition using fdisk fdisk /dev/hdb option n to add a partition Once you have setup your partitions, use option v to verify then w to write the table to the hard disk. Then create a filesystem, ext2 filesystem... mke2fs -c /dev/hdb1 642600 or whatever parition you created, hdb1, hdb2 etc. The 642600 is the block size of the partition that you have created with fdisk, get this number by typing: /sbin/fdisk -l /dev/hdb Once you have created a filesystem you can then mount the drive to your linux file tree. First make sure a directory exists to mount to, so mkdir /extra_drive once a directory exists you can mount your new disk to it by mount /dev/hdb1 /extra_drive you would need to do this everytime you booted, so to make it mount this location everytime edit /etc/fstab with the mount point. It should be straight forward to do, read about fdisk, mke2fs or mkreiserfs for a reiser file system and mount. Look at YaST as well, it may be able to do most of this for you. Cheers Rich On Saturday 21 April 2001 10:41 pm, Phiboy171@aol.com wrote:
I installed the drive the bios recognized it but i don't know how to see what is on it. Or to mount it or create a partion on it...
In a message dated Sat, 21 Apr 2001 3:42:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Tor Sigurdsson
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Þann laugardagur 21 apríl 2001 19:29 skrifaðir þú:
I am wanting to add another hard drive to my suse 7.0 system. Is there anything that I need to do to make it recognize it in the OS?
Thanks Joe Greene
Add the drive to your IDE/SCSI chain, fdisk it to create partitions, mke2fs or mkreiserfs the partitions, create a mount point ( mkdir ) and mount them :)
Easy as pie
- -tosi -- Powered by SuSE Linux Richie Rich
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