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From: Stephen E. Hargrove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, September 25, 2000 4:14 PM
Subject: Partitions
>I'm preparing to install an IDE 45gb hard drive on a RH6.1 system. It's
>not a primary drive, and will mainly be used for extra storage of
>documents. I have a few elementary questions:
>
>1) Other than making sure IDE support is compiled into the kernel, what
>steps do I need to take to prepare for installing this device?
That should be it. As long as its IDE based, that'll work. ATA66 drives
need more to work if you use them on ATA66 connections though. Not sure if
this applies, since you didn't offer many specs on the drive or motherboard.
>
>2) What steps are necessary to get it properly formatted for Linux?
You will need to use fdisk to create one or more partitions on the drive,
then you will need to use mkfs to format the partition(s) as ext2
filesystem(s), Then you will need to edit fstab to automount the drive.
>
>3) Would it be okay to devote the entire 45gb to one partition, or will
>it be necessary to divide it into numerous partitions? If I need to
>create more than one partition, how big should they be?
>
One would be fine for what it sounds like your doing.. Multiple aren't
required, but can be useful.
>4) Also, I have a 4.5gb SCSI drive which currently mounts as /data on
>/dev/sdb1. Once I get the 45gb drive installed, all of the data on
>/data will be moved to the new drive, leaving /dev/sdb1 unoccupied. How
>do I go about (a) deleting the partition and (b) redefining it as /www?
>Basically, I'm wanting to move all webserver-related files to this one
>drive.
First, ceate a new directory named /www for your 4.5 GB drive. You will
need to edit /etc/fstab to include the new drive and its mount point /data,
and change the old drive's entry to have /www as its mount point. Once you
have fstab edited, you can umount the old partitions, then do a mount for
each of the newly defined partitions. Hope this helps.
Jeff Hogg
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