[Lias] Adding IDE drive to SCSI system

[Andrew Dorrell]

Simon Bryan wrote:
> 
> Hi all.
> (Another question from the dumby!)
> 
> I have RH7 running on a HPE40, which has SCSI HDD's. No problems. However,
> the partition that stores a lot of user data is filling rapidly. So I
> thought add another disk drive and then mount it as that directory, that
> should work right (will have to move exisiting data first).
> eg the directory is /var/auc/courses, copy all the files out of there,
> install the new HDD and have it mounted as /var/auc/courses
> 
> If this is feasible, would this work if the new drive is an IDE drive
> rather than SCSI (not worried about speed of access)?

This will work just fine.  Just add the mount point in /etc/fstab for
the new disk

> Is there a HOW TO somewhere to tell me how to accomplish the installation,
> formatting and mounting of a new drive? (About to go and look myself but
> thought I would ask anyway)

Probably the hard-disk-upgrade mini howto will get you there.

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