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

[Robert L. Harris]

You can rmdir the data1, it's just a mount point.  Just a thought, if
you're running 2.4.12+, compile in ext3.  Once you do that, you can add
journaling to your machine's drives without reformatting, etc.  Took a
power hit recently when my son found the bright button on my UPS.  It's
great bringing back up a system with 120Gigs of disk space and not
requireing a full fsck on all drives.



Thus spake Kevin Cullis (kevincu at orci.com):

> 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
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