Hi, I found an 80G HDD that I'd forgotten I'd brought over here with me in my luggage; I'd like to add it to my existing dual boot Mandrake 9.0 and WIN2KPRO system. I temporarily put it in my external USB case and found it's formatted as NTFS and it's got some MP3s on it I'd like to keep...
So I was thinking, if I connect it as slave on the first IDE channel and then boot into windoze to copy the files on it to CDR before re-formatting it as FAT32, will Linux then find it on the next reboot? Or will the dual boot software spit the dummy when it sees a new hard drive it doesn't know about? Is there any possibility of screwing something up? [ie: losing files, making my system unbootable, etc...?] AND Can someone point me to a document or URL that explains in simple terms how Linux names drives/partitions and how to find out the relationship between the partitions and the naming scheme? For example, if I look at my HDD in Konquerer, I see a bunch of directories but no way to see the partitions [aside from /mnt/cdrom]. But when Googling I found somewhere that told me to type ls /dev/hd*, which gives me this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] merlin]# ls /dev/hd* /dev/hda@ /dev/hda2@ /dev/hda6@ /dev/hda8@ /dev/hdd@ /dev/hda1@ /dev/hda5@ /dev/hda7@ /dev/hda9@ How do I find out what directory is on what partition, and how much space is available on each? And when I add the new HDD [which I want to use for video editing files and MP3s etc] is it possible or advisable to move existing partitions or directories to it? TIA, -- Merlin Zener Piano, Synthesizer Thailand. registered Linux user number 328618
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