Topic: 2 HDD (Drive 1 - 8GB CF Card , Drive 2 - 40GB IDE HD

[Teviot]

Hi All

I want to run a 40GB IDE HD as the second drive and put the /HOME dir (Maybe as a partition) on this drive. How do I do this? I not familar with doing this an haven't found anything that might help me.

Below is the current HD install with SME Server 9.1 on the FIRST HD

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[root@firewall ~]# fdisk -lu /dev/sda; fdisk -lu /dev/sdb

Disk /dev/sda: 8069 MB, 8069677056 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 981 cylinders, total 15761088 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c86db

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *        2048      514047      256000   fd  Linux raid autodetect
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2          514048    15759359     7622656   fd  Linux raid autodetect
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

Disk /dev/sdb: 40.1 GB, 40060403712 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4870 cylinders, total 78242976 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7b632462

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *          63      208844      104391   fd  Linux raid autodetect
/dev/sdb2          208845    78236549    39013852+  fd  Linux raid autodetect
[root@firewall ~]#

Can anyone help me please

Teviot

[Stefano]

Teviot..

your've been here enough to know we have an huge documentation (and you are in the wiki team too)

https://wiki.contribs.org/AddExtraHardDisk

[Teviot]

thanks Stefano

I hadn't thought of that for a search

Teviot