Re: [SLE] Help with mounting of second hard drive

From: David James Pettifor (david_at_digitalpenguin.freeuk.com)
Date: 11/10/04

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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 07:59:15 +0000

    On Tuesday 09 November 2004 23:05, Jerry Westrick wrote:
    > On Tuesday 09 November 2004 21:58, David James Pettifor wrote:
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > I'm looking for some advice with regards using a second hard disk with
    > > SUSE Linux Professional 9.1. So far I have carried out the following.
    > > Logged in as root user and partitioned my new hard disk with fdisk, using
    > > the command fdisk /dev/hdb1. I then formatted the partition with the
    > > following command, mke2fs /dev/hdb1.
    > >
    > > What I want to know now, is how I go about mounting the drive? I want the
    > > second hard drive to act as extra space for my own documents, such as
    > > mp3's, photos, movie files etc.
    > >
    > > Any advice, most appreciated.
    > > --
    >
    > Since you did not mention the sizes of the drives, and mentioned the drive
    > as "extra", you've already crossed out another possibility.

    I am intrigued. What is this possibility I have crossed out?

    > On the other hand you are asking newbie questions, so I'll mention this
    > anyway...
    >
    > You can use the drive to store ALL of you personal files, freeing up the
    > primary drive for other things...
    >
    > This is done by copying over the files currently in your home directory and
    > then mounting the drive as your home directory. Then all user data will be
    > stored on the "new" drive.
    >
    > If this sounds like a solution to you, then I'm sure many of the fine folks
    > here will help you out...

    This does sound interesting. Could you give me a few pointers? 

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