2 hard disks
Pete Clapham
w.clapham at csuohio.edu
Tue Nov 27 16:58:47 UTC 2007
This is easy in any flavor of Linux/Unix. The new disk is hdb or sdb,
depending on whether it's IDE or SATA. The 'b' is the important thing.
Define a mount point (e.g. /home/annie/disk2, where /home/annie is
Annie's home directory). Then mount the /dev/hdb1 as /home/annie/disk2
(the 1 is added when you format the disk to ext3 or ext2, as is the
UUID). You then should add the mount information to the /etc/fstab
table. The easiest way to do this is to sudo gedit /etc/fstab and add
the line immediately below the line for hda1. It can be almost exactly
the same; simply change hda1 to hdb1; and correct the mount point, but
/don't/ change the UUID that's given there. There is a bunch of other
information in the fstab table as well, but you can use the same numbers
as present for other drives. This sounds like a lot of hard work, and
it is more involved than with Windows, but it's also a lot more
flexible, since it lets you put the new disk within the file system the
way /you/ want rather than lockstep C: D: E: . . . .
Good luck.
cheers,
pete
norman wrote:
> I am setting up a new computer for my granddaughter, installed Edubuntu
> and everything works without any problem. I have the hdd from the old
> machine on which is installed Win XP. If I put this old drive into the
> new computer, along with the new one, could it be made available in case
> she needs to use windows for a game or something? I presume that the old
> drive would have to be set as a slave but what else needs to be done
> please?
>
> Norman
>
>
>
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Pete Clapham
Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences
Cleveland State University
Cleveland, Ohio, 44115
Voice: [216] 687-4820
Fax: [216] 687-6972
w.clapham at csuohio.edu
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