Re: fstab setup
First, make an empty directory somewhere for your new file system to
live on top of. If you use an existing directory, everything in that
directory will be invisible until you unmount (softwarewise) your new
drive.
Edit /etc/fstab, any editor. Make a line that looks just like the one
for your other drive. I.e.
/dev/hdb /newdir ext2 0 1
except to reflect the new drives specifics. /dev/sd[abc] work better
for scsi. Each time you reboot, the boot process will take of making
the new space visible by checking fstab for mounting instructions.
Now use the `mount` command to avoid having to reboot now.
`mount /newdir`
Wait, I forgot to ask if you had used fdisk to partition the new drive
and then mkfs to put an ext2 (I assume that is the one of many you
will use) on it, or did someone give you a drive already formatted for
linux?
Hope that helps.
Elaina
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 02:45:34 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
>My Linux system runs off of a small (170 MB) hard drive.
>I added a larger (app. 700 MB) hard drive in order to load all the Debian packages that I would like to get.
>
>However, Dselect tells me that I don't have enough room to load the packages (which total approx. 450 MB). My first thought was that I could change the Fstab file to reflect my new hard disk, and thus solve my problem.
>
>I guess my major question is how can I configure Fstab to "let" Dselect know that I have the required space?
>(Alternatively, I'm probably completely off base and my question would then be, how can I get the system to acknowledge this newly mounted hard drive and be able to utilize the extra space for installing packages?)
>
>James Rucker, Linux lover! -- and newbie ;^)
>
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