Adding a second hard drive to your HDA

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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 and Luigi Capriotti).

  • 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.

Guide to Adding a Hard Drive to Fedora

This is a good guide to adding a hard drive to Fedora: 

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/storage/
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