[wplug] adding new drives

[Bill Moran]

Chris Romano <romano.chris at gmail.com> wrote:
> I just installed Slack 10.1 on an older windows box.  It has 6 SCSI
> drives.  During the install, slack only picked up the first disk.  I
> just installed everything under "/".  After install I did the
> following for the other five disks.
> 
> # fdisk /dev/sdb
>    d (delete part)
>    n (new part)
>    p (primary)
>    1 (1st one)
>    w (write)
> 
> # mkfs.reiserfs /dev/sdb1
> 
> I can can new create directorys and mount those disks to each
> directory.  Now this is where I need some help.  I want to have them
> mounted something like this:
> sda3 /
> sdb1 /home
> sdc1 /tmp
> sdd1 /var
> sde1 /var/log
> sdf1 something
> 
> so would I do something like this:
> 
> # cp -R /home /monted/sdb1

If you do it this way, at least use -Rp (p tells the system to maintain
permissions)

> 
> for each disk then add the entries to fstab?  
> /dev/sdb1   /home    reiserfs       ?????    ?   ?
> 
> What would I put in the last three columns?

The last three columns are:
4: Mount options, usually will be "defaults"
5: dump requirement - if you don't know what that means, then 0 is OK
6: fsck order, should be 1 for / and 2 for everything else.

> Am I going about this
> right?  I never had to add disks or edit the fstab before.

This will work OK.  I would recommend booting from a knoppix CD when you
do the copies and fstab adjustments.  cp can have trouble if files are in
use.  Many people recommend using dump | restore when copying the files
for this kind of adjustment, since it seems to be a little more pedantic
about maintaining file attributes than cp, but I've never seen cp fail.
(again, I recommend you boot from Knoppix while doing the copy)

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Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
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