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Adding A New Drive To File Server
Evening,
I downloaded the .iso for an i386 install thanks to a link from Jeremy (thanks for that) and managed to get it installed and running thanks to the great step-by-step guide from S. Ignacio (many thanks for that). But, the system did not activate (for lack of a better term) the second drive I had attached. Now I am trying to figure out how to get that second drive set up for storage.
I see in the webmin panel that a drive is listed as "Device B" and shows an NTFS file system (which my second drive has, I forgot to format it). I am assuming that is my second drive. Can I just work from that window to mount the drive and, if so, what directory should be used?
Thanks for any guidance,
Bill
Replies (4)
Sorry for slow response...
Reply 1Making some progress but...
Reply 2Evening,
Thanks for the reply, Jeremy. I was finally able to figure out how to reformat the drive and did so as ext4. However, it formatted it with a capacity of about 75% of the actual drive space. I read the blog post on using LVM and set up a logical volume and then the file system. Now it's a matter of figuring out where to mount it to so that my other computers can access it. Thanks for the suggestion on that, I'll give it a try.
I have also downloaded GParted in order to try to reformat the drive to gain the full capacity. Unfortunately, GParted is not seeing the second drive. I'll keeping working on that, as well.
Thanks again for the help.
Bill
Sounds like you're having progress
Reply 3Good work! :)
OK forget most of the last post...
Reply 4I've experienced times when I feel inherently stupid and this is one of them. I just looked at the drive again and the formatted space is correct. (I had my drives mixed up). Also, I found it in GParted and now have it formatted with a primary partition and an ext4 file system. Now, I'll try mounting it.
Bill
As you've discovered, by default the system will only format and install to the first drive that it finds. If you want to add an additional HDD then yes you will need to configure/add that.
TBH I don't have much experience with Webmin and personally I generally prefer doing things manually via commandline. However I would anticipate that you are on the right track.
Considering that it recognises that it's NTFS it sounds like it should 'just work' although personally I'm not a big fan of using NTFS on Linux. I have had issues with it in the past; especially if your computer looses power (i.e. not shutdown cleanly). I have had files 'disappear'... So personally I would reformat as either FAT or ext4.
As for where to mount; OTTOMH the default storage is /srv/Storage so I would either mount it as /srv/Storage2 or /srv/Storage/HDD2 or similar but really it is entirely up to you.
Let me know how you go and if you get stuck, I'll fire one up and try to help you out.