RE: [SLE] Help with mounting of second hard drive
I am not sure if 9.1 has the partitioner in Yast like 9.2 does ... but if so, you can use this to set the mount point! I did it with my extra hard drive... just set it to /second_drive and bing... there it was... -----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@rydsbo.net] Sent: Tue 11/9/2004 1:27 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Cc: Subject: Re: [SLE] Help with mounting of second hard drive On Tuesday 09 November 2004 21:58, David James Pettifor wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for some advice with regards using a second hard disk with SUSE Linux Professional 9.1. So far I have carried out the following. Logged in as root user and partitioned my new hard disk with fdisk, using the command fdisk /dev/hdb1. I then formatted the partition with the following command, mke2fs /dev/hdb1.
Why do you use ext2 as a file system. Why not at least ext3, or xfs, or reiserfs? (format with mkfs.ext3, mkfs.xfs or mkfs.reiserfs respectively)
What I want to know now, is how I go about mounting the drive? I want the second hard drive to act as extra space for my own documents, such as mp3's, photos, movie files etc.
Decide where you want your new drive to be accessed. For example /data or /usr/local/data or /mnt/data, or whatever. When you've decided, create the directory with "mkdir /data" (or whatever you decide on), then mount it with "mount /dev/hdb1 /data". to make it mount automatically on boot, add a new line to /etc/fstab with something like /dev/hdb1 /data ext2 defaults 1 2 Change ext2 to ext3, reiser or xfs if you decide to go with one of them instead (I highly recommend it) -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 21:38, Paul Agner wrote:
I am not sure if 9.1 has the partitioner in Yast like 9.2 does ... but if so, you can use this to set the mount point! I did it with my extra hard drive... just set it to /second_drive and bing... there it was...
The last time I used partitioner I could no longer boot to the desktop! Therefore I am scared to death of touching the thing.
-----Original Message----- From: Anders Johansson [mailto:andjoh@rydsbo.net] Sent: Tue 11/9/2004 1:27 PM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Cc: Subject: Re: [SLE] Help with mounting of second hard drive
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 21:58, David James Pettifor wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for some advice with regards using a second hard disk with SUSE Linux Professional 9.1. So far I have carried out the following. Logged in as root user and partitioned my new hard disk with fdisk, using the command fdisk /dev/hdb1. I then formatted the partition with the following command, mke2fs /dev/hdb1.
Why do you use ext2 as a file system. Why not at least ext3, or xfs, or reiserfs? (format with mkfs.ext3, mkfs.xfs or mkfs.reiserfs respectively)
What I want to know now, is how I go about mounting the drive? I want the second hard drive to act as extra space for my own documents, such as mp3's, photos, movie files etc.
Decide where you want your new drive to be accessed. For example /data or /usr/local/data or /mnt/data, or whatever. When you've decided, create the directory with "mkdir /data" (or whatever you decide on), then mount it with "mount /dev/hdb1 /data".
to make it mount automatically on boot, add a new line to /etc/fstab with something like
/dev/hdb1 /data ext2 defaults 1 2
Change ext2 to ext3, reiser or xfs if you decide to go with one of them instead (I highly recommend it)
-- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
-- David .~. / ^ \ /| |\ simply change .\ /. .^.
On Tuesday 09 Nov 2004 21:45 pm, David James Pettifor wrote:
On Tuesday 09 November 2004 21:38, Paul Agner wrote:
I am not sure if 9.1 has the partitioner in Yast like 9.2 does ... but if so, you can use this to set the mount point! I did it with my extra hard drive... just set it to /second_drive and bing... there it was...
The last time I used partitioner I could no longer boot to the desktop! Therefore I am scared to death of touching the thing.
It's good to learn how to do it 'properly' any way. Dylan -- "I see your Schwartz is as big as mine" -Dark Helmet
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