On Mon, 27 Dec 1999, Mike Perry wrote:
| Just a quick query here :-)
|
| If I want to add an additional Hard Drive to an existing mandrake 6.1 box,
| can I just partition it as a single linux native partition and then will it
| be detected on boot and be usable?, or is it more complicated (or simple)
| than that?.
|
|
| Cheers:
|
| Michael Perry.
| R&D. Dep. Netafim Magal.
| <<<<Linux -- the Ultimate Windows Service Pack>>>>
Not quite that simple. You have to tell Linux where to mount any new
partition(s) on the filesystem. Simply create a new folder using the name of
your choice, perhaps "storage" (No Quotes). Then mount the partition with the
mount command as "mount -t ext2 /storage" (No Quotes). You can set up the mount
in fstab if you wish, or you can use linuxconf to do the fstab edit.
If you want to use the new partition(s) for existing elements of the
filesystem, then you have to mount the new partition on a temporary folder,
copy any existing data or files to the new partition from the intended
filesystem branch, unmount the new partition, delete the original data and
folder(s) (not the top level folder which will still be used as the mount point
for the new partition), then re-mount the new partition(s) using the permanent
mount points you just cleaned out. Now you can use linuxconf to set up the
mounts at startup, and all should be well. Note: Be very carefull to duplicate
any original file/folder structure onto the new partition if the chosen mount
point is an existing branch of the filesystem.
HTH,
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
