On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Liz Dunbar wrote about, installing 2nd hard disk:
> I usually lurk for a long time before posting but this is urgent - 2nd hard
> disk is going in tomorrow afternoon. I can handle the hardware part, but
> what do I need to do software-wise? Friend got tired of my muttering about
> disk space and bought the school 20GB disk of which my understanding is I
> can currently use 8GB and wait for calmer times and upgrades to grow into
> the rest. Inherited the server & setup so don't know much about it. Help?
Firstly forget the 8Gb limit, linux should have no problem, i'm talking
2.2.x or 2.3.x kernels, as to 20Gb i dont know, 13Gb should be ok, you will
see that tommorow when you use fdisk to partition the drive.
Its easy to just add a disk.
1) make sure you have at least one partition within the 1023 cyls range.
2) the rest you can partition any way you want really within normal disk
limitations.
After partitioning the disk, you dont need to partition all of it, just
make a plan on how you will use it, the rest of the examples illustrate one
partition called /dev/hdb1 i take it it will be the slave disk on the
master controler.
fdisk /dev/hdb
create partition(s)
write/save and exit fdisk.
DO NOT try and mount the disk yet.
mke2fs /dev/hdb1
(a lot of text and numbers will be written to the screen.)
create a mount point on the first disk, say in the root partition, it could
be any ext2 partition.
mkdir /spare
edit /etc/fstab and add;
/dev/hdb1 /spare ext2 noauto 0 0
mount /spare
cd /spare
Thats it.
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> Liz Dunbar
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