HD Regrets

["Bob Tilley (AT&T)" <bobt@cocoa.tybrin.com>]

I spent all of Sunday engaged in the venture of cleaning 
my /etc/fstab file.

I have two hard drives in my Linux box, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb2.
When I installed Knoppix, I learned that the installer will only 
copy files to one disk.  Modification of the .kconfig file is 
possible to enable installation to two drives but ... 
"a dollar short, a day late".

The operation consisted of changing /etc/fstab and my 
disk structure so that the /home/$USER directories were located 
on /dev/hdb1, not /dev/hda1.  I created mkdir'ed the directories
/home-copy/$USER on hdb1 and cp'ed all dirs/files to 
/home-copy/*.  Then the original /home dir was rm -rf'ed, 
"/home-copy" was mv'ed into "/home", /etc/fstab was edited 
to reflect the new directory structure.  I thought everything was OK.

I rebooted the box and when I logged in, /hdb1 did not exist.
To summarize, F'ing with the box for an inordinate amount of time
revealed that /dev/hdb1 was not being auto-mounted on bootup, only
/dev/hda1.  I must manually "mount /dev/hdb1" to access the /home 
directory.

My question is two-fold:  1)  How do I cause /dev/hdb1 to automount 
                              on bootup?
                          2)  Is there a shorter solution to copying
                              /home/* from /hda1 to /hdb1?  If so,
                              what is it?

Any comments are welcome at tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com.

Thank you,

Bob

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Robert Tilley
321-785-2010
bobt@cocoa.tybrin.com
tilleyrw@cfl.rr.com