-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 19, 2003 12:24 am, Merlin Zener wrote: > 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? If it's connected and you have harddrake set to check for new hardware on boot it should be found. It won't be mounted (I don't think) but that's easy enough to work around. Don't quote me on that though, it's been awhile. Or you could keep using it as a USB device. > 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...?] There's always the possibility to have things screw up with any piece of hardware but it's unlikely you'll loose anything. As long as you don't try to write anything to it from Mandrake while it's still formatted NTFS. > 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: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/4269/1/ http://www.faqs.org/docs/linux_admin/x1139.html http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/install-guide/ch-partitions.html http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/tutorials/partition-mounting.shtml The directories in / aren't just directories, some are named partitions. You can open a terminal and type df to see the structure and usage of partitions on an hard drive. Or open KDiskFree and you'll see it graphically. The command above is an acronym for disk free. Both methods will, as stated already, give partition number (hda1, hda5, hdb1 etc) as well as total space, how much of the available space is spoken for, and how much is left. OK? Or did you need something else? > [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? See above. Or ask if you need something else, it's late and I'm stuck on stupid again. <g> > TIA, > > -- > Merlin Zener > Piano, Synthesizer > Thailand. > > registered Linux user number 328618 HTH Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 01:36:53 up 28 days, 14:59, 1 user, load average: 0.11, 0.21, 0.46 We are Microsoft. Unix is irrelevant. Openness is futile. Prepare to be assimilated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/kkLqG11CaRuZZSIRAuwoAJ4lP/WzbGTT2dHIrI+OzjorqFuc8ACdHDzD odyorGKypNeSJjxLxuqgiRY= =5xzA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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