Doug Finch wrote:

I have a question that might sound a bit newby-ish. I have a system with two hard drives on a Linux box. I have freshly installed 7.0 on one of the hard drives and the other has nothing of importance on it. It is of the ext2 fs format. I want to make this into a "storage" drive so that I can download etc... I found a tutorial on about.com that seems pretty thorough. http://linux.about.com/compute/linux/library/weekly/aa091100c-a.htm?rnk=r1&t erms=linux+%2Bhard+drive My question begins with, is this tutorial thorough enough? Second, before I "fdisk /dev/hdb" do I go into /etc/fstab and either comment out (#) the "/hdb" listings (there are two) or delete them or does it matter. Is there anything else that I should know so that I do not hose my newly installed 7.0 on my primary drive?

You shouldn't have any problems. I would comment out the current /hdb entries (assuming your second, non-SuSE-7 drive is /dev/hdb) and delete them after you have finished everything and it's all working. You won't do anything nasty to your SuSE 7.0 install unless the second drive holds some SuSE 7 partitions and as long as you make sure that /dev/hdb is indeed the correct drive!! Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\