On Sunday 01 May 2005 11:49, JR wrote: > My laptop is pretty low on harddrive space. If I want to install something > big (like openoffice or a large game), I usually have to uninstall > something else, or delete some music. > > I'm wondering is there a minimal way that I could connect a harddrive to > the network here at home, and use it as another partitiion? Or even just as > a network drive. Maybe I could put all my mp3's on it. > > Thanks, > > Jarlath
Yes you certainly can. You could use a network drive, or one attached by USB. Just plugging in a USB drive will cause it to be mounted (as /mnt/removable I think) Another alternative, is if you have other computers in the house you can mount one of their drives. For example if there is a Windows computer in the house just define one of it folders as 'shared' and then use Samba to mount it on your Linux computer. If you go to Mandrake Control Centre>MountPoints>Samba you can pick the Windows shares to mount and choose a mount point. Your system will then automatically mount those shares whenever it boots. If you have other linux computers in the house you can share their partitions using NFS. I have one computer I use as my MythTV frontend which has no hard drive at all and mounts all its partitions over the network with NFS. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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