Re: two linux hard disks

From: Michel Catudal (_at_)
Date: 11/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:39:31 -0500

Le Sat, 26 Nov 2005 09:11:12 +0100, Harald Finster a écrit :

> Hi,
>
> Michel Catudal wrote:
>> Le Sat, 05 Jul 2003 00:17:25 +0200, Data Miner a écrit :
>
>>>
>>>I had early the hard disk 1 on one computer and hard disk 2 on another
>>>one, both configured as master and both was installed with SUSE Linux
>>>7.2. Now I want to move the hard disk 2 to the first machine and let it
>>>work as the slave.
>>> ...
>>
>>
>> Just create and empty directory, make an entry in /etc/fstab and mount the
>> partition using that directory.
>>
>
>
> right, let me explain this a bit more exhaustive:
>
> You probably need to switch a jumper on your former
> master and new slave disk. (I assume IDE)
>
> Then, you will have:
> new master: /dev/hda
> new slave: /dev/hdb
>
> More assumptions:
> you have the following partitions on your new slave:
>
> 1st: /boot formely /dev/hda1
> 2nd: swap
> 3rd: / formerly /dev/hda3
>
> this will become (ignore the swap for the moment)
>
> 1st: /boot formely /dev/hdb1
> 3rd: / formerly /dev/hdb3
>
> If the data, you want to use sits on /home/mydata,
> you will have to do the following:
>
> create a new directory, for example
> /home/mydata
>
> add the following to you fstab:
>
> /dev/hdb3 /home/mydata reiserfs defaults 0 2
> ^^^^^^^^
> ^^^^ depends on your actual file system of course
>
>
> The new disc will be mounted at boot time and/or with
> mount -av
>
> Greetings Harald

It should be noauto if he wants to remove the hard disk without
and not boot on a special rescue screen. If SuSE does not find
the partition to mount it will not correct and you will not
be able to have a correct boot. 

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