On Tuesday 09 November 2004 23:05, Jerry Westrick wrote:
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.
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.
Any advice, most appreciated. --
Since you did not mention the sizes of the drives, and mentioned the drive as "extra", you've already crossed out another possibility.
I am intrigued. What is this possibility I have crossed out?
On the other hand you are asking newbie questions, so I'll mention this anyway...
You can use the drive to store ALL of you personal files, freeing up the primary drive for other things...
This is done by copying over the files currently in your home directory and then mounting the drive as your home directory. Then all user data will be stored on the "new" drive.
If this sounds like a solution to you, then I'm sure many of the fine folks here will help you out...
This does sound interesting. Could you give me a few pointers? -- David .~. / ^ \ /| |\ simply change .\ /. .^.