Difference between revisions of "Adding a second hard drive to your HDA"
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| − | + | = ADD MORE STORAGE (SECONDARY HARD DRIVE) = | |
| − | A secondary hard drive (fat32, ntfs, etc) can be added for additional storage and configured to mount permanently using the [http://media.ubuntu-nl.org/scripts/diskmounter diskmounter] script (thanks to Dennis Kaarsemaker) | + | A secondary hard drive (fat32, ntfs, etc) can be added for additional storage and configured to mount permanently using the [http://media.ubuntu-nl.org/scripts/diskmounter diskmounter] script (thanks to Dennis Kaarsemaker). |
| − | As user ''root'', edit '''''/etc/fstab''''' to change location of shared ''//hda'' folders to the secondary drive. | + | * Execute the script as ''root'' and answer YES to the prompt to make the drive writable to all users. |
| + | * Once complete, reboot and the secondary drive should automatically mount. | ||
| + | * As user ''root'', edit '''''/etc/fstab''''' to change location of shared ''//hda'' folders to the secondary drive. | ||
This is what the script added for my drive: | This is what the script added for my drive: | ||
| − | + | ''Added by diskmounter utility'' | |
| − | ''Added by diskmounter utility'' | + | ''/dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files vfat rw,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0'' |
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| − | ''/dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files vfat rw,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0'' | ||
I changed second path to '''''/var/hda/files''''' to enable all shared files to be stored on the secondary hard drive. This is the default path for ''//hda'' file storage system | I changed second path to '''''/var/hda/files''''' to enable all shared files to be stored on the secondary hard drive. This is the default path for ''//hda'' file storage system | ||
Revision as of 01:53, 16 July 2008
ADD MORE STORAGE (SECONDARY HARD DRIVE)
A secondary hard drive (fat32, ntfs, etc) can be added for additional storage and configured to mount permanently using the diskmounter script (thanks to Dennis Kaarsemaker).
- Execute the script as root and answer YES to the prompt to make the drive writable to all users.
- Once complete, reboot and the secondary drive should automatically mount.
- As user root, edit /etc/fstab to change location of shared //hda folders to the secondary drive.
This is what the script added for my drive:
Added by diskmounter utility /dev/sdb1 /var/hda/files vfat rw,user,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0 0
I changed second path to /var/hda/files to enable all shared files to be stored on the secondary hard drive. This is the default path for //hda file storage system
