Re: Adding a drive

birre wrote:
On 2007-10-30 03:51, Michael Soibelman wrote:
Fred wrote:

I have a dutch version but thought start: yast/system/partition.

fred

Michael Soibelman:
O.K. I've got a pretty complete installation of 10.3 on my main server
and
I want to add another drive. How do I do that ?? I want to physically
add the drive and boot into this install to reformat and partition the
drive.

Both drives are IDE not scsi. I'm going to add 4 more scsi drives
shortly but that is for another day.

A step by step answer would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Michael Soibelman

Yes I know that. What I was actually concerned with is whether or not
booting up my system after installing a new drive would cause any
problems
booting up as the kernel would not recognize the new drive (i.e. it's not
formatted correctly and not in fstab)...

I'll just give it a try.

The kernel will find new hardware, and Yast partitioner will let you
edit partitions, make filesystems and select mountpoints for it.

Tips: If you will have it for large video files, use xfs , if you
will use a huge number of small files use reiser.
And if you can stand a forced fsck every 70 days or so, ext3.

/bb

Your comment about filesystems got me interested.

Let's assume we have a server with a separate system disk with swap, /
and /home. This is always my normal case.

Then that server carries some 20.000 .mp3 files and 1.000 or so .avi and
..mpg files plus like a few thousand .jpg files.

Let's assume there will be separate disks and their mount points for
video, music and photos.

What should the filesystems on those disks be and why?

I'm asking this because I'm planning to gradually go to that and start
to use SATA disks, with a PCI card to start with.

Vahis
--
"Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important
stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)"
Linus Torvalds 1996.
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