multiple hard drives

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz]

> Thus, my questions are:
> 
> 1)  Is my approach good or am I off in left field?

You got a pretty good approach, but if you have just begin on Linux, I 
think it's a difficult one.

> 2) Any suggestions and/or corrections?

See http://aziz.ouattara.free.fr/spip.php?article9 (I wrote an article 
just for you :p ).

> 3) Is my x.txt actually going to my 1st hard drive or my 2nd hard drive?

I would say that it was write to your first drive. I don't think you 
have mount your partition. Use Disk Manager to do it: specify a mount 
point and activate the partition.

> 4) Is it correct to have /dev/hdc and /dev/hdc3 in the same directory 
> correct?

I would like to have the answer of that too. I know most linux system 
put those kind of "alias". It's not rare to have hdc and hdc1 referring 
to the same device.

> 5) As far as I know my extra drives will mount under root and appear 
> similar to /dev/hdc3.  If I do a df or du at root will I see one drive 
> or both?

df will show you all the mount points

> 6) Is there a good tutorial out there on using multiple hard drives on a 
> single system?

Hope mine is not that bad :p

> 7) How do I mount or export the drives so other machines on the network 
> can see them?

Using /etc/samba/smb.conf . change the security lines from "security = 
user" to "security = share". You could have to install the "samba" package.

Regards

	

	
		
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