If your new hard drive is on the same IDE channel as your existing one, then
it will be hdb not hda. If it is on the other IDE channel it will be hdc
or hdd according to whether it is master or slave.
That brings me to another point. Check you have set the jumpers correctly on
the back of the new drive. One drive should be master the other drive should
be slave. (Do NOT use cable) select
After you install the drive go into your BIOS and in the hard drive page
select 'AUTO' and your new drives geometry should magically appear. Then boot
into Linux and open Mandrake Control Centre>MountPoints>HardDrives select
your new drive from the 'tab' pick a file system type, and a mount point, and
divide it into multiple partions if you wish and click 'Done' and your new
drive will be formatted, and fstab will be written accordingly.
It only gets tricky if you want to mount the new partition as a partition that
is already mounted elsewhere. Then you have to start juggling about with
mount point names and copying files over from one to the other.
Hope I remembered it all :-)
derek
On Wednesday 02 Oct 2002 8:24 pm, Schwenk, Jeanie wrote:
> I'm about to add a new hard drive and once it is physically in place, I am
> unsure what to do next. Here's what information I do have about the
> system.
>
> hda1@ through hda6@ are already exist in /dev
> hda1,5,6 are listed in /etc/fstab
> hda1 and 5 are listed in /etc/mtab
>
> hda1 is /
> hda5 is /usr
> hda6 is swap
>
> This new drive is for backups and I want to mount it at /backup.
>
> Do I just edit the fstab file and then run the mount command? Can I use
> hda2, 3 or 4 however I want (ie add this to the fstab file - ./dev/hda2
> /backup ext2 defaults 1 2)? Then run fdisk?
>
> Jeanie
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