On Sunday 01 May 2005 12:07 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: > 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
Thanks for that Derek, Nice options. The network drive idea sounds great. There is another computer in the house but it's not on very often. Am I right in thinking that the network drive can be attached to the hub in the house and then accessed from any of the computers? This would be ideal, as I could just put it under the stairs with the router and forget about it. Jarlath
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