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Old 04-18-2005, 02:23 AM   #1
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Using second harddrive to share across local network. Best way to do so?


I need to setup a mp3 server so I can access them from anywhere in my house. I have an old computer to use but I don't want to put all the files on the same harddrive. Instead I was hoping to use a 80 gig hd I had laying around. But what would be the best way to set this up? I want to be able to share this with my windows OS's as well. So would it be best for me to make the second hd a FAT32 and figure a way to share it like that. Or could I just make the second hd the /home partition and share it like I would normally?
Thanks for your time and help.
 
Old 04-18-2005, 03:42 AM   #2
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Format the drive with either Reiserfs or Ext3. Since you are sharing with Windows computers, Samba will need to be installed. Samba will allow access to the Ext3/ReiserFS filesystems, so Please don't use FAT32.

You could mount the hard drive under /home assuming that /home is empty. If there are files/folders under /home, you'll need to move them to the second hard drive before mounting it as /home.

I didn't read that you are sharing these files with other linux computers, but if you are, look into NFS for sharing between linux PCs
 
Old 04-18-2005, 11:54 AM   #3
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Yes I will be sharing it between linux systems as well. I will look into that though. Thanks for the help.
 
  


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