Need help adding new hard drive.
Jeremy Fowler
jfowler at westrope.com
Mon Nov 19 23:17:46 CST 2001
Check out the Hard Disk Upgrade Mini How-to:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KUCHARSKI, DAVID R. [mailto:dave at iemco.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 19, 2001 4:12 PM
> To: KC Linux User Group
> Subject: Need help adding new hard drive.
>
>
> OK I know this is a NEWBIE question with an easy answer, but I've
> checked my books and can't seem to find it, so here is my situation.
>
> Added a new 78 gb drive. ran fdisk to set 70+ gb as ext2 (ext3 not
> supported by this fdisk) remaining 8-ish gb as win95 fat32 to share some
> windows files as a samba share for later use.
> anyway now I am at a standstill as to what I need to do. I want to be
> able to mount the new drive and move /var to it. that is where I have a
> production db residing.
>
> I guess I am asking for the commands needed to format the new drive- or
> is that needed?
> then unmount /var I guess and relocate it to /dev/hdb1 and remount it
> there.
>
> Thanks
> Dave
>
>
>
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