From sandyseeds@iname.com Sat Aug 15 20:29:28 1998
From: sandyseeds@iname.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:29:28 -0400
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I'm not well versed with the Linux file hierarchy and could use some
advice.
I have a new 4G HD that I want to add to my P-133, which presently has a
single 2G HD. Is it possible with the new drive to add 'space' to the
existing partitions (ie: /usr, /home, etc.)? Or do I start from scratch
and reconfigure based upon the combined size?
If there's a HOW TO or man page on this I'm not bright enough to have
found it yet.
TIA
andy
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From mallors@crazyhorse.msfc.nasa.gov Sat Aug 15 21:01:02 1998
From: mallors@crazyhorse.msfc.nasa.gov
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Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:01:02 -0500
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On 15 Aug, Sandy wrote:
>=20
> I'm not well versed with the Linux file hierarchy and could use some
> advice.
>=20
> I have a new 4G HD that I want to add to my P-133, which presently has a
> single 2G HD. Is it possible with the new drive to add 'space' to the
> existing partitions (ie: /usr, /home, etc.)? Or do I start from scratch
> and reconfigure based upon the combined size?
>=20
Here is an example of moving your /home partition to a new (IDE)
drive. I am writing from memory, so take it with a grain of
salt :-)
1. Install the second disk as a slave drive on the primary IDE=20
controller. Reboot Linux, check to make sure the second drive
is recognized when the kernel boots.
2. Run fdisk on the new drive, and create how ever many partitions
you want:
/sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb
3. Make filesystems on the new drive. =20
Assuming you made one partition,
/sbin/mke2fs /dev/hdb1
Read the man page for mk2fs first.
4. Drive is now ready for use. Mount it on the filesystem:
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /mnt
5. Copy all files under /home onto the new drive. There are
several ways to do this, tar, cp -R, etc. Here is a=20
crude (untested!) example:
cd /home
tar -cvf /mnt/newhome.tar * <=3D=3D can't remember if this gets
the hidden files...
cd /mnt
tar -xvf newhome.tar
rm newhome.tar=20
There are better ways to do this - this is just off=20
the top of my head :-)
6. Edit /etc/fstab, and mount the new partition at boot. You will add
a line something like=20
/dev/hdb1 /home ext2 defaults 1 1
7. Move your old /home out of the way:
cd /
mv /home /home-old
8. umount the new partition:
umount /mnt
9. Reboot, check that the new /home looks Ok, the
rm -rf /home-old
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From alexm@hr60.tx.symbio.net Sat Aug 15 21:36:29 1998
From: alexm@hr60.tx.symbio.net
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Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:36:29 -0500
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Hi,
>
> I have a new 4G HD that I want to add to my P-133, which presently has a
> single 2G HD. Is it possible with the new drive to add 'space' to the
> existing partitions (ie: /usr, /home, etc.)? Or do I start from scratch
> and reconfigure based upon the combined size?
>
This is not AIX (I wish linux supported logical volumes). I am afraid you
are going to have to repartition.
Or try to use symbolic links to point from your existing partitions to
newly created on the second disk.
This is what I was doing before I decided to repartition and reinstall.
alexm
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From budr@sirinet.net Sat Aug 15 22:03:54 1998
From: budr@sirinet.net
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:03:54 -0500
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"Robert S. Mallozzi" writes:
> 5. Copy all files under /home onto the new drive. There are
> several ways to do this, tar, cp -R, etc. Here is a=20
> crude (untested!) example:
>=20
> cd /home
> tar -cvf /mnt/newhome.tar * <=3D=3D can't remember if this gets
> the hidden files...
> cd /mnt
> tar -xvf newhome.tar
> rm newhome.tar=20
>=20
> There are better ways to do this - this is just off=20
> the top of my head :-)
>=20
I would move /home like this. I've used this technique several times.
AFAIK, I haven't lost anything yet. The dash writes to/reads from std I/O.
And of course you could add a v to see the files being moved.
cd /home
tar -cf - . | (cd /mnt; tar -xf - )
HTH.
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From eck@ti.com Sat Aug 15 22:04:35 1998
From: eck@ti.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 17:04:35 -0500
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On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Robert S. Mallozzi wrote:
>
> 7. Move your old /home out of the way:
>
> cd /
> mv /home /home-old
>
You might want to add the following step:
7.1 mkdir /home
_____________________________________________________________________________
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From fmiller@lightlink.com Sun Aug 16 01:58:16 1998
From: fmiller@lightlink.com
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Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:58:16 -0400
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Sandy wrote:
>
> I'm not well versed with the Linux file hierarchy and could use some
> advice.
>
> I have a new 4G HD that I want to add to my P-133, which presently has a
> single 2G HD. Is it possible with the new drive to add 'space' to the
> existing partitions (ie: /usr, /home, etc.)? Or do I start from scratch
> and reconfigure based upon the combined size?
>
> If there's a HOW TO or man page on this I'm not bright enough to have
> found it yet.
Sandy, you can make "user2" or what ever you'd like on the new
drive....NOT a problem for Linux and SuSE.
Fred
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From sandyseeds@iname.com Tue Aug 25 10:52:03 1998
From: sandyseeds@iname.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 06:52:03 -0400
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alexm@hr60.tx.symbio.net wrote:
> > (Sandy wrote:)
> > I have a new 4G HD that I want to add to my P-133, which presently has a
> > single 2G HD. Is it possible with the new drive to add 'space' to the
> > existing partitions (ie: /usr, /home, etc.)? Or do I start from scratch
> > and reconfigure based upon the combined size?
> >
>
> This is not AIX (I wish linux supported logical volumes). I am afraid you
> are going to have to repartition.
>
I appreciate the several responses. Thanks folks.
Looks like I'll repartition the total 6G when 5.3 arrives. Any
suggestions as to partition sizes and mounting filesystems. I'll only
have SuSE installed so no need to consider other OS's.
TIA
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From satan3@home.com Tue Aug 25 17:11:21 1998
From: satan3@home.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 12:11:21 -0500
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Sandy wrote:
> Looks like I'll repartition the total 6G when 5.3 arrives. Any
> suggestions as to partition sizes and mounting filesystems. I'll only
> have SuSE installed so no need to consider other OS's.
Here is my current /etc/fstab:
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1 100
megs
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 64
megs
/dev/hda7 /opt ext2 defaults 1 2 300
megs
/dev/hda8 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 1850
megs
/dev/hdb1 /dos vfat defaults 0 0 2000
megs
/dev/hda9 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 200
megs
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat rw,noauto,user 0 0 --
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0 --
/dev/hdd1 /zip vfat rw,noauto,user 0 0 --
none /proc proc defaults 0 0 --
For any box that has 1-3 users, I would say that 100 megs for / is
sufficient. I have always used a 300 meg /opt partition, but I think
when 5.3 shows up I will do away with it and just symlink /opt to
/usr/local. /home really only needs to be as big as the largest
download you might make as a regular user. /home really isn't the best
place to keep binaries or to archive all your mp3s or whatever, so it
doesn't need to be that large. I put each of my removable media devices
in fstab and create directories for them in /. I find 'mount /dev/fd0'
faster than 'mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt'
so I have mount points for each. This is strictly a personal
preference. I also use vfat for the fs of removable media because this
is readable across platforms, but this won't affect you unless you swap
data between os'es. I have a vfat partition /dos mounted at boot. This
contains quake, quake2, all my mp3s, midi, images, emulators and roms,
etc. These files are used in win95 and linux, and it just makes more
sense to not duplicate the files as this partition is usually 1.5 gigs
of data. /usr is the partition where almost everything you do will be
located, so make /usr as big as possible and get in the habit of keeping
files in /usr. It doesn't make much sense to have a big /home on a
family pc, use /usr where possible.
This is all really subjective, and I'm sure that some will find fault
with my recommendations. Some people like one big / partition. That's
a bad idea. If / goes, you are screwed. If /home goes on my box, I can
recover. =20
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From alexm@hr60.tx.symbio.net Tue Aug 25 20:39:33 1998
From: alexm@hr60.tx.symbio.net
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: [SuSE Linux] Re:Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 15:39:33 -0500
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Hi, everyone!
I do not know why this happens, but just want to let you know
On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:
> I have always used a 300 meg /opt partition, but I think
> when 5.3 shows up I will do away with it and just symlink /opt to
> /usr/local.
ymlink /opt --> /usr/local does not always work
One of my friends tried to install word perfect 7 rpm supplied with RH5.
His /opt was a directory in the root fs.
Word Perfect would always attempt to install itself into /opt.
However, there was not enough space in /
We removed /opt directory and created symlink /opt to /home/username.
Attempted to run rpm -i wp7.rpm
This created a directory /opt leaving the /opt@ symlink untouched.
The only way we could get around this was by umounting /home and mounting
it under /opt for the time of installation.
I did not test it myself (I was helping him over the phone), but I think
this can be tested with a netscape rpm.
Maybe I am not aware of something with symlinks, but this is what
happened.
alexm
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From weissel@jupiter.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de Wed Aug 26 09:28:12 1998
From: weissel@jupiter.ph-cip.uni-koeln.de
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] Re:Q: Adding a 2nd HD
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:28:12 +0200
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Hi!
Trying to kill the keyboard, alexm@hr60.tx.symbio.net produced:
> This created a directory /opt leaving the /opt@ symlink untouched.
Obviously some typo ...
because you cannot create a dir if there is a file or symlink
(or other dir) with the same name.
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From arunkhan@xnet.com Wed Aug 26 16:14:41 1998
From: arunkhan@xnet.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Partition ques. [was Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD]
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 11:14:41 -0500
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Thanks to Michael Lankton for sharing his partition layout. I had a
similar installation with Slackware way back in '94, wherein I what really
wanted was a separate partition to install the / (root) filesystem and the
rest of the stuff could go in another partition. Since I am the only user,
I am not concerned about disk quotas, filling up /usr/tmp /var/tmp etc.
I could not figure out how to do a Linux install in 2 partitions (one for /
and for the rest) and would appreciate if someone could give me some pointers.
Thx,
Arun Khan
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From stugreen@realtime.net Wed Aug 26 17:16:06 1998
From: stugreen@realtime.net
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: Partition ques. [was Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD]
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:16:06 -0500
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Arun K. Khan wrote:
> Thanks to Michael Lankton for sharing his partition layout. I had a
> similar installation with Slackware way back in '94, wherein I what really
> wanted was a separate partition to install the / (root) filesystem and the
> rest of the stuff could go in another partition. Since I am the only user,
> I am not concerned about disk quotas, filling up /usr/tmp /var/tmp etc.
>
> I could not figure out how to do a Linux install in 2 partitions (one for /
> and for the rest) and would appreciate if someone could give me some pointe=
rs.
Arun,
Naturally there are multiple ways to accomplish this. From the boot disk one
could start the installation process and choose "Adjustment of installation" =
once
YAST has started and select the "Configure hard drive partitons" option. Aft=
er
doing your worst to dazzle and confuse the disk controller move on to the "Set
target partitions/filesystems" options and declare your intentions. Once yoou
return to YAST start choosing packages to install and save your preferences t=
o a
diskette before the mandatory reboot that follows repartitioning the drive.
Method 2:
Start as above, but following linuxrc running jump to an alternative console =
by
hitting 'alt -F2'. Run fdisk and partition the drive. Remember to set a swap
partition type for the one being used for swapping. Write out the harddrive
config and reboot. Once linuxrc runs again and YAST is up go to the "Adjustm=
ent
of installation" menu again and choose "Set target partitions/filesystems" and
proceed from there.
By the way, even on a single user machine it makes some sense to separate /tmp
from /, especially if you intend to use the net extensively.
Hope this helps,
Stu
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From satan3@home.com Wed Aug 26 17:20:42 1998
From: satan3@home.com
To: users@lists.opensuse.org
Subject: Re: Partition ques. [was Re: [SuSE Linux] Q: Adding a 2nd HD]
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:20:42 -0500
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try a / and a /usr partition
you may be able to symlink /home to /usr/home if you don't want /home in
/, that's how FreeBSD does it anyway, haven't tried that in linux
Arun K. Khan wrote:
>=20
> Thanks to Michael Lankton for sharing his partition layout. I had a
> similar installation with Slackware way back in '94, wherein I what really
> wanted was a separate partition to install the / (root) filesystem and the
> rest of the stuff could go in another partition. Since I am the only user,
> I am not concerned about disk quotas, filling up /usr/tmp /var/tmp etc.
>=20
> I could not figure out how to do a Linux install in 2 partitions (one for /
> and for the rest) and would appreciate if someone could give me some pointe=
rs.
>=20
> Thx,
> Arun Khan
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Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 17:48:09 -0400
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FYI:
Installing Debian 2.0(and 1.3.0 prior to it), SuSE 5.2 and RH 5.1 I chose
to create=20
three partitions: /, /usr, and /home. SuSE, also, got a /opt as that was
suggested for those planning to use KDE and Netscape. It was fairly easy,
particularly in SuSE and Debian, being carried out during the install.
During initialization of Linux partitions I just created additional
partitions rather than immediately continuing to the next step in the
insatllation. The "default" partition, e.g.=20
/usr, would come up giving me the option to choose, which one I wanted to
install.
I might add that I had already created the actual partitions with
preplanned sizes.
I might add I had earlier attempted to install a swap partition on an IDE
HDD while using an UDMA for my various other partitions. It did not work
very well(read very poorly) and resulted in the only time to date I've
seen my swap partition fill up and begin to page out. I'm guessing the
IDE is just too slow, but perhaps there is some other reason.
Best regards,
Bob Russell
kc8chq@juno.com
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Penguin inside! Now THAT'S Cool!
On Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:20:42 -0500 Michael Lankton
writes:
>
>try a / and a /usr partition
>you may be able to symlink /home to /usr/home if you don't want /home=20
>in
>/, that's how FreeBSD does it anyway, haven't tried that in linux
>
>Arun K. Khan wrote:
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>> Thanks to Michael Lankton for sharing his partition layout. I had a
>> similar installation with Slackware way back in '94, wherein I what=20
>really
>> wanted was a separate partition to install the / (root) filesystem=20
>and the
>> rest of the stuff could go in another partition. Since I am the only=20
>user,
>> I am not concerned about disk quotas, filling up /usr/tmp /var/tmp=20
>etc.
>>=20
>> I could not figure out how to do a Linux install in 2 partitions=20
>(one for /
>> and for the rest) and would appreciate if someone could give me some=20
>pointers.
>>=20
>> Thx,
>> Arun Khan
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