Jut plug it in and run DiskDrak (you'll find this as Mount points under Hardware in Control Centre). You should see the new disk - probably as HDB and DiskDrak will see all the existing partitions. You can then repartition, or resize or whatever. (Backup any data first).
Based on your requirements below, you wil probably want to just make one or two big partitions and mount them with public access. This is just a matter of setting the permissions accordingly. Most of this can be accomplished in the same DiskDrak panel - at least getting it partitioned and mounted. Be aware that if you are thinking of using Reiserfs, there are apparently some issues with using that with NFS, so if this is to be your means of making the partitions available, maybe choose something else. Civilme had this to say about that on the expert list the other day: It could be kernel dependent. Reiser claims they have solved this problem. XFS works great over NFS and tests out about as fast as Reiser on our distro, and also will work much better if you have Samba servers involved anywhere in your system. I would take his advice! /Brian On Monday 24 December 2001 8:57 pm, you wrote: > I have an extra 20 gig hard drive sitting in my desk and want to use it as > a slave in my Linux comp. but was wondering a few things. > > The hard drive currently has windows 98 installed on it. What would happen > if I connected it to the linux computer? Will it re-partition it? > Secondly, if I do connect the 20 gig and it re-partitions and everything is > ok, how do I give more disk space to certain users? I have an anonymous > user set up and would like to give most if not all of the space to that > user to for file room (this will be my file server). > > Thanks in advance, > Mithrilhall > > > =========Mithrilhall========= > Linux - Mandrake 8.1 > AMD K-2 / 350 Mhz > File Server > FTP Server > Web Server > ========================= > > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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