running low on hardrive

Longinus · 03-27-2004, 09:42 PM

hi

i have almost used up my 16 gig harddrive

im thinking about buying another hardrive

i just want to know do i have to do anything special before installing the new hardrive

and how can i acces the hardrive?

thanks

beejayzed · 03-27-2004, 10:24 PM

Just try it and see if anything breaks

. (No really)
Sorry, I've never added a drive to linux system, so I can't tell you.

sterrenkijker · 03-28-2004, 05:31 AM

The bios will detect the harddrive. Just start linux, and partition your harddrive (or partition your harddrive, and start linux

). You can mount it as hdb, instead of hda for you first harddrive. Example:

mount hdb1 /mnt/some_kind_of_folder_which_must_exist

320mb · 03-28-2004, 10:25 AM

you will need to add the new drive to your /etc/fstab in order to mount it at all!! and make a mount point in / or /mnt/

Longinus · 03-28-2004, 10:44 AM

oh ok thanks

now when i make the partition, do i have to make it the same fileing system like ext2 ext3 or that Rans Heister thingy?
-because i dont remember what i chose for my file system

thanks for the replies

sterrenkijker · 03-28-2004, 11:21 AM

All supported filesystems (that is ext2, ext3, reiserfs, even FAT32 and maybe NTFS) will work. If you also have a windows installed I would advice formatting it FAT32, so windows can easily acces that partition. If you don't, choose reiser or ext3: they're journalling filesystems, and will reduce the risk of loosing data or getting a corrupted filesystem. Reiser is also very good with small files (fast acces and little waste of diskspace)

Longinus · 03-28-2004, 11:39 AM

oh i didnt know that thanks sterrenkijker

Dunedain · 03-28-2004, 03:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 320mb
you will need to add the new drive to your /etc/fstab in order to mount it at all!! and make a mount point in / or /mnt/

Actually, I think you can moutn things without having it in your fstab. really, to the best of my knowledge it's just "mount -<fs; e.g vfat> <mountpoint>"

J.W. · 03-28-2004, 03:44 PM

Of course, one other option would be to see whether you have files you can safely delete. My point is that you may not need another disk, maybe youv'e got 5G of data (or whatever) that you no longer need. If so, you may not need a new drive today. Keep in mind that drive prices drop constantly, and if you can wait for another 4 or 5 months, you can probably either save $$$ for the same size drive you're considering, or spend the same $$$ and get a bigger drive. Just thought -- J.W.

sterrenkijker · 04-01-2004, 12:31 AM

If you add a line for your new disk in /etc/fstab it will be automatically mounted every time you boot. If you don't, you have to mount it manually with a command like "mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/newdisk"

Stoli · 04-01-2004, 06:30 AM

if you're gonna set the filesystem in linux, don't forget to do a "mkfs", which is the command that actually makes the file system. For example, after you partition the hd (in one big partition or several little ones), you have to run "mkfs" once. After that, it's easy to mount 'em.

DangerousDrDave · 08-30-2004, 02:26 PM

What line do you put in the /etc/fstab file to get the other Fat32 hard drive to mount automatically? An example would be very helpful!

In my case I have 98se on the single partition C drive (hda1) and Fedora Core 2 on the Linux partitioned D drive (hdb1,hdb2,hdb3). I dual boot with GRUB.

do you just put the manual mount command in the file?