a second hard drive

Doug Pollard dougpol1 at verizon.net
Tue Sep 2 16:51:19 UTC 2008


Doug Pollard wrote:
>     I have  a second hard drive on my computer.  I had  problems with my 
> Ubuntu 8.04, of my own making.  My solution was to install Ubuntu and 
> Cinelerra on my second drive so I could continue learning and getting 
> the problems straight on sda1 and at the same time work on video in 
> Cinelerra.  I kind of know how that one armed paper hanger felt now . :-) 
>     Thanks to the help on this list most problems in that first 
> installation are resolved, Thanks to all of you.  You folks are 
> appreciated although I'm sure you wonder sometimes? 
>       Now to configuring and getting my machine as I want it. I would 
> now like to make the second drive a slave of sda1 so that when doing 
> video the huge amount of hard drive space needed will be usable in both 
> drives. I want cinelerra ro be able to work back an forth on both drives.
>      To get started I went into Gparted and made a single partition  it 
> is /dev/sdb1.  Can someone either send me to a good tutorial  or give me 
> the commands to make this drive and partition   a slave to the first 
> drive. 
>                                   Thanks    Doug
>  
>
>   
In case there is confusion, I set the partition on the second hard drive 
dev/sdbl .  This drive is now empty and sba contains Ubuntu 8.04
                                     thanks Doug




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