hi
i m quite new to linux server, i am having a server. that is allready configured with multiple hard disks, and i need to create 500+ user accounts on this server, so what should be the feasible solution.when i try fdisk -l at terminal i get

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 26.2 GB, 26212270080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3186 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 * 1 2039 16378236 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 2040 3186 9213277+ 82 Linux swap

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d1: 26.2 GB, 26212270080 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3186 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 * 1 2039 16378236 83 Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d1p2 2040 3186 9213277+ 82 Linux swap

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d2: 166.0 GB, 166076497920 bytes
255 heads, 32 sectors/track, 39751 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 8160 * 512 = 4177920 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/cciss/c0d2p1 * 1 39750 162179984 83 Linux




>>>>in this output i am not getting the naming convention used for hard disk.
>>>> i am looking to create all user accounts on the Disk /dev/cciss/c0d2 which is showing 166 GB. please tell me how to proceed.

c0d0 = disk 0
c0d0p1 = disk 0 partition 1 ... and so on


Is this an HP HW box ?
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To create 500 users in a batch, you could roll your own method, but you may want to base it on http://linux.die.net/man/8/newusers


As you are new to Linux, I recommend
http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz

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BTW RHEL4 went out of regular support in February; you should get latest 5.x or 6.x
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

If you don't want to pay for updates & support, go with Centos https://www.centos.org/: a free rebuild of RHEL, inc updates but not support.

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I suppose you mean that you want all home directories for the users to be on /dev/cciss/c0d2p1. For this to be possible, /dev/cciss/c0d2p1 needs to be mounted somewhere in the filesystem hierarchy. The obvious choice would be to mount it on /home, but you can mount it anywhere.

chrism01 asked for the output of df -h so we can see if /dev/cciss/c0d2p1 is mounted and where.

During the process of the creation of users, you can specify their home directories and you can simply use 'path_to_mountpoint/userA', 'path_to_mountpoint/userB' etc.

In a standard setup, path_to_mountpoint will translate to /home, but if you mount your disk on a (newly created) directory /extradisk, it will translate to /extradisk

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thanks for the reply ......

here's the output
[root@localhost new]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d1p1 16G 6.4G 8.3G 44% /
none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm

[root@localhost new]# cat /etc/fstab
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
LABEL=/osbackup / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/cciss/c0d1p2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_ubject_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_ubject_r:removable_t,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

i could not fine any thing for last command cat /etc/*re