[SLE] New Harddrive - almost there!
From: Steve Lett (jeepnut_at_linuxmail.org)
Date: 08/23/04
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To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 17:02:01 -0600
Hi all,
Taking the advice on config of the new drive, etc. and have had some successful experiments.
Before I finalize things, a few questions I'm still fuzzy on.
I'm setting up a new harddrive (hdb) and want to move all the user data (/home/jeepnut) to a separate drive from the system files.
1. when I partition hdb should I partition as a primary or as an extended partition. I'm unclear about what the difference is other than being able to define more than 4 logical partitions in an extended partition. Does it really matter if I use extended or primary for this partition?
I got into trouble once defining /home on the hdb drive. Once I did that, I no longer had access to the data in the /home folder on the hda drive. So I could not move things over to the new drive. So it occurs to me to make hdb have a different mount point, something other than /home.
2. when I define the partition, should I define the mount point as something like /UserFiles/JeepNut? or should I just make the mount point on hdb /JeepNut?
Apologies if these are stupid questions. I'm just beginning to understand what is going on with the partitions and their names...
Thanks!
JeepNut
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