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20-02-2007, 06:41 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Linux and Hard Disks
Help!!!!! Help!!!!!I currently have win xp on my comp. But soon i am going to clear my both hdds and load linux in one of my hdds. Also i am going to get another hdd of 40 gb. Let's name my hdds a,b and c. So in 'a' there will the / dir without /home. Now how to mount 'b' and 'c' such that it is avaliable to all users in /home 's space?
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20-02-2007, 07:01 PM
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Re: Linux and Hard Disks
keep the two hdds attached wen installin linu ... it ll auto mount them...
else use the command
mount -t vfat /home/hdb /dev/hdb (for fat)
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mount -t ntfs /home/hdb /dev/hdb (for ntfs)
this ll mount the device hdb(ur hdd) @ home/hdb...
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20-02-2007, 07:25 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: Linux and Hard Disks
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Originally Posted by pathiks
keep the two hdds attached wen installin linu ... it ll auto mount them...
else use the command
mount -t vfat /home/hdb /dev/hdb (for fat)
and
mount -t ntfs /home/hdb /dev/hdb (for ntfs)
this ll mount the device hdb(ur hdd) @ home/hdb...
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you did not understand. 'b' and 'c' should be the default hdd for /home and not 'a' which is /. i mean that can we hv mount pt /home for both 'b' and 'c'.
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And the filesystem will be ext3 or 2. not ntfs or fat.
Last edited by The Unknown; 20-02-2007 at 07:25 PM.
Reason: Automerged Doublepost
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20-02-2007, 07:30 PM
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Re: Linux and Hard Disks
nope then... i dont think u can hav the same mount point for two diff hdds or partitions...
wait for the linux gurus to come... dont rely on me 
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20-02-2007, 08:15 PM
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Re: Linux and Hard Disks
I don't have multiple hard disks so haven't ever tried such a thing but one thing you can do is. Keep / on 1st hard disk, ~ on 2nd hard disk and ~/entertainment on 3rd hard disk. entertainment can be anything. Like, it can be the download folder for music and movies. Name it as you wish.
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20-02-2007, 09:57 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: Linux and Hard Disks
how abt / on 1st, 2nd one on /mnt/drv01 and the 3rd one on /mnt/drv02?
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20-02-2007, 10:17 PM
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Re: Linux and Hard Disks
sure you can do that, too.
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20-02-2007, 11:51 PM
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Re: Linux and Hard Disks
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Originally Posted by The Unknown
how abt / on 1st, 2nd one on /mnt/drv01 and the 3rd one on /mnt/drv02?
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This method will not put your /home partition on a separate drive, rather it will be on first drive only. To get two drives function as one (like /home directory), you need to put them in RAID.
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21-02-2007, 06:36 PM
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Wise Old Owl
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Re: Linux and Hard Disks
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This method will not put your /home partition on a separate drive, rather it will be on first drive only. To get two drives function as one (like /home directory), you need to put them in RAID.
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Buddy mine is an old comp. p3 wth ide hdds
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21-02-2007, 07:26 PM
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El mooooo
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Re: Linux and Hard Disks
Then my friend you can not make your two hard disks to act as one 
IMO you should keep one drive for / and your bigger drive for /home. You can use your third drive as another partition.
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