[CLUE-Tech] fstab, directories, and 2 Hard drives on one system

[Kevin Cullis]

Hi all,

I'm finally getting to work on a second HD on my Linux system.  I've got
Linux seeing the second hard drive and have partitioned it and this is
my fstab:

------
/dev/hda2       swap                      swap            defaults   0  
0
/dev/hda3       /                         ext2            defaults   1  
1
/dev/hda1       /boot                     ext2            defaults   1  
2
/dev/hdb1       /data2                    ext2            defaults   1  
2

proc            /proc                     proc            defaults   0  
0
# End of YaST-generated fstab lines

# /dev/hdb1		/data1		auto	noauto,user 0 0
/dev/cdrom		/media/cdrom	auto	ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
devpts	/dev/pts	devpts		defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0		/media/floppy	auto	noauto,user,sync 0 0
------

However, when I view my root directory, I see this:

bin   cdrom  data2  etc     home  lost+found  mnt  proc  sbin   swap 
usr
boot  data1  dev    floppy  lib   media       opt  root  share  tmp  
var

Question: When I repartition my HD and I "rename" the second HD as
/data2/ it keeps the first directory (nothing is in each discussed
directory) I can rmdir the "first" directory without any problem, right?

(I commented out the /dev/hdb1    /data1 so that I wouldn't delete
anything)

Question: Does SuSe using YAST create a new partition and then write to
fstab. 

Question: Are there predependencies that I should be aware of?

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I could best utilize 2 HD on
my system?

Thanks

Kevin