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= Guide to Adding a Hard Drive to Fedora =
 
= Guide to Adding a Hard Drive to Fedora =
  
This is a good guide to adding a hard drive to Fedora:
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This is a good guide, for advanced users, to adding a hard drive to Fedora:
  
 
  http://fedoranews.org/tchung/storage/
 
  http://fedoranews.org/tchung/storage/

Revision as of 04:07, 30 December 2008

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, for advanced users, to adding a hard drive to Fedora:

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