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Add 2nd hard drive
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| I need to add second hard drive to my current RedHat 9 (2.4.20-31.9). This
hard drive will be hdc and used as a file storage and share for other's on
my small local network. I know next to nothing about Linux and need
assistance to install and format this new hard drive.
Thank you... B
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| decrepit 2006-08-12, 1:12 pm |
| Bob wrote:
> I need to add second hard drive to my current RedHat 9 (2.4.20-31.9). This
> hard drive will be hdc and used as a file storage and share for other's on
> my small local network. I know next to nothing about Linux and need
> assistance to install and format this new hard drive.
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> Thank you... B
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Not sure about RH9 but it's probably got a comand line tool called
"parted", try " man parted " . If that seems a bit too hard. there's a
gui version called qtparted. You may be able to install it, if not it
appears on several live linux CDs. With it you can partion and format,
RH9 probably uses ext3, have a look at /etc/fstab the 3rd line is file
system format.
Add your new HD partions in here, to have them mount at bootup
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| General Schvantzkoph 2006-08-12, 1:12 pm |
| On Sat, 12 Aug 2006 09:31:06 -0400, Bob wrote:
> I need to add second hard drive to my current RedHat 9 (2.4.20-31.9). This
> hard drive will be hdc and used as a file storage and share for other's on
> my small local network. I know next to nothing about Linux and need
> assistance to install and format this new hard drive.
>
> Thank you... B
You can use webmin to partition and format your drive. Get webmin from
http://www.webmin.com. Webmin is a browser based admin tool that lets you
configure all of your servers and do all of your basic admin functions
like add users, partitioning drives. It works for almost all distros. You
access it from a browser on any machine on the network with
http://machine_name:10000
One final thing, why are you still using RH9? It's obsolete and
unsupported. Given that you obviously don't like to do frequent updates
I'd suggest that you upgrade to CentOS 4 which is the free clone of RHEL
4. RHEL 4 will still be supported for 5 or 6 more years.
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