Re: [Sheflug] hard disk problem

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Ian,
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 04:59:07PM +0100, Ian Wright wrote:
> 
> However, I now seem to be running short of space on the main disk and so I
> would like to make the dos disk into a linux one and mount it on the system
> somehow. So, how do I do it? I tried fdisk and can change the partition type
> to 'linux' but I don't know then a) how to 'format' it to make it '/usr1' or

	mkfs.ext2 is your friend! Just do a mkfs.ext2 /dev/XXXX, and
that's it. Check the man page for mkfs.ext2 (or mkfs, the wrapper for
all the different FS available) before you do it.


> something, b) how to stop it mounting as /mnt/DOS_hdb1 and mount it as a
> part of the main system. I have tried to find info in the 'man' pages etc

	You want to have a look at /etc/fstab, and comment out/delete
the line that tells init to mount the dos drive as /mnt/sumthing. Of
course, you can now have a similar line that mounts your new drive.
Something along these lines will do the trick

/dev/hdb1	/MOUNTPOINT	ext2	defaults,errors=remount-ro	0 	1

	That should sort you out!
	Regards,
	José
	
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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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