On Fri, 27 Mar 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > As for making it appear as part of the original drive, that is what
> > > /etc/fstab is for.
> >
> > Yes, but I meant this:
> >
> > current: 195MB
> > new : 106MB
> >
> > add : 301MB
> >
> > so that it appears the drive now has 301 MB. I think this is something you
> > have to compile into the kernel? CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD ?
> >
>
> No, the kernel does not have to be recompiled when you add new disks.
>
> If you want to put /usr/local on a New (empty) disk partition.
>
> 1. mke2fs /dev/???
> 2. mount /dev/??? /mnt
> 3. ( cd /usr/local ; tar clf - . ) | ( cd /mnt ; tar xvpBf - )
> #3 copies all files from /usr/local to /dev/??? (which will
> become the New /usr/local
> 4. varify the #3 did it correctly - diff -r /usr/local /mnt
> 5. edit /etc/fstab - add the new partition
> ie /dev/hdb1 /usr/local ext2 defaults 1 2
> 6. Now delete the OLD /usr/local directory. cd /usr ; rm -rf ./local
> 7. umount /mnt ( not really necessary )
> 8. Now reboot the system & enjoy your new drive.
I dont know how to explain myself better! I already know of this method,
(thanks for the step by step, I didnt know how to do it..) but what I
meant was that there was something about "multidisk" support or something
in the kernel config, that made the drive to appear as ONE 301MB drive..
something to do with RAID I think, there is also a package in bo, mdutils,
which I think I need to use:
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mdutils - Multiple Device driver utilities
The Multiple Device driver's main goal is to group several disks or
partitions together, making them look like a single block device.
With 1.3.60ish kernels configured appropriately you can concatenate
partitions and/or stripe data across disks. New (very alpha) kernel
drivers allow raid1 and raid5, providing mirroring and so forth.
This package contains the utilities for managing these features.
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Another thing, I use fdisk or cfdisk to create a full partition on the
drive, and then mke2fs it, and the partition disappears, but can still be
mounted.. whats wrong here? I suppose I should mention it is connected to my
sound card, as I have one IDE port on my IO card, and that has my first HDD
and my CD-ROM, the first HDD does not 'like' having a slave for some reason.
so the sound card systemseems to work fine.. comes out as /dev/hdc
fdisk:
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ROOT- /root > fdisk /dev/hdc
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdc: 12 heads, 17 sectors, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 204 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 1 1024 104439+ 83 Linux native
Command (m for help):
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then I mke2fs it:
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ROOT- /root > fdisk /dev/hdc
Warning: invalid flag 0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdc: 12 heads, 17 sectors, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 204 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help):
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Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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