All, New drive install this morning, appears tobe functioning without a problem. I had some hicups with the fstab file at to the layout, but got it after some head scratching as to the layout of the file.
Again thanks to all for the great help. Jerry -- Jerry Mellon 501 Los Caminos St. St. Augustine, FL 32095 (407)461.9216 -----Original Message----- From: Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> To: Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Add a hard drive to existing system?? Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2021 18:33:58 -0500 Stefan Monnier wrote: > > No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as > > /dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it. > > Hmm... actually, there's a risk that the new drive gets assigned the > name `sda` and the "old" one gets renamed to `sdb`. > Yes, or stranger things -- which is why 'cat /proc/partitions' is first on my list of instructions. -dsr-
