If you don't know what to do with it, then def. use LVM. So, I'd do this: 1. Insert drive 2. fdisk as LVM 3. pvcreate /dev/sdX 4. vgcreate VolGroupXX /dev/sdX 5. lvcreate -n MyVolXX VolGroupXX -L 100GB 6. mkfs.ext3 /dev/VolGroupXX/MyVolXX 7. mount /dev/VolGroupXX/MyVolXX /home/shared
--- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm Monday, March 26, 2007, 1:46:03 PM, you wrote: > This is the first time I've ever dabbled with multiple drives in > Linux, and I don't know what to do. Where should I mount it? If I > mount it as a subdirectory of my home, then it's mine. What if > someone else wants to use it? I thought about something like > /var/storage, and I did that, but then I had permission problems > (because root mounted it, so root owned it). If I tried to 777 it, > it only went to 755. I couldn't chown or chgrp it either. I thought > reformatting the drive as vfat might solve the permission issues, but it did > not. > sudo chown joe /var/storage > operation not permitted. > sudo chown joe ~/hdb1 > operation not permitted. > So what do I do? What filesystem should I use? > And yes, for future use, I'll throw an entry in fstab, I was just using mount > for now.
