Ken Schneider wrote:
Please DO NOT reply to the list and the poster. Where do you think I got your original request from? The list! And how any copies do I need in reply - ONE.
Thanks
-----Original Message----- From: Basil Chupin
To: Kenneth Schneider Cc: Suse Linux Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 19:05:03 +1000 Subject: Re: [SLE] Newbie Question - Adding Hard Drive. Kenneth Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2004-04-16 at 11:53, David Rankin wrote:
Mates,
I have 8.2 pro on /hda, cdrw on /hdc and another 20G drive I want
to add
as /hdc and move the cd to /hdd. The 20G drive has 9.0 pro on it that
I
thrashed. After I install the 20 G as /hdc, I would like get your
help with
just the basic names of the cmd line tools to do the following.
(1) partition and reformat /hdc to ext2 as the /home partition; (2) move my existing /home from /hda to /hdc; and (3) hopefully not screw up my 8.2 install on /hda.
I can handle the /etc/fstab entries.
Just a link to a page with this info would be fine.
I would recommend connecting the drive to /dev/hdb rather then mix a cdrw drive and a hard drive on the same ide controller. You'll have
far
fewer problems I/O that way.
Could you please spell out what sort of "far fewer prblems" will be avoided by doing this?
as root in run level 3:
(1) install the hard drive on hdb (2) fdisk the drive as one partition (you can use YaST for this and
#3)
(3) mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdb1 (4) mount the partition to a temporary mount point mount /dev/hdb1 /temp (5) copy the /home data to the temp mount point (cd /home;tar cf - *)|(cd /temp;tar xvf -) (6) umount /temp (7) mv /home /home.old (assuming on the root filesystem) (8) add mount point in /etc/fstab (9) mkdir /home; mount /dev/hdb1 /home (10) login as user on another tty to test
If you have no errors after logging in as a normal user you should be safe to go. And you never needed to reboot after adding the 2nd drive just init 5 as root.
OK, so on this very rare occasion I forgot to wipe your e-mail address from my message, but what the heck are you on about getting my "original request from?"? What 'my original request'? I didn't make a request. All I want you to do is to answer my question which is what problems are to be avoided by not putting a CDROM, or similar, on the same cable as a HD. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.