On 10 Feb, phillip mannie wrote:
It's time to add a little room to my S.u.S.E. 5.0 machine. I'm adding a Fujitsu 1.7Gb EIDE drive (which formally contained some wincrap and a couple of Red Hat partitions). I can mount the LINUX partitions, so I believe that the physical installation is working. I was just about to run (as root) fdisk /dev/hdb, create a partition or maybe 2, format and add the new partition(s) to the fstab when it occured to me that perhaps I should be using some S.u.S.E. provided tool for this.
I didn't see anything obvious in YaST, so my question would be ought I just do this by hand (as it were), or does S.u.S.E. provide some preferred tool for preparing new HD space on a running system? Any pitfalls anyone has encountered with this seemingly simple operation?
Hi Phil, I've read the answers to your question an I wonder... most of them used fdisk, as I did sometime in the beginning. But YaST is far a bit better for that. goodness, I've (of course got a gernman system ;-)) I just switched to english.. confusing things happen.... ;-) (SuSEconfig runs...) try adjustment of installation... configure hard disk partitions -- select the "new" disk delete the old create the new partitions move back, select "Set target partitions/filesystems" enter mount points etc. pp. leave yast, reboot (because partition tables are written) start yast (it will remember that there was something to do i.e. formatting new partitions) and that will be it. HIH Jürgen -- ========================================== __ _ Jürgen Braukmann e-mail: brauki@cww.de | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ========================================== /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e