Re: tlug: Mounting my W95 partition

["Scott H. Perlman" <perlman@example.com>]

Jonathan Byrne--3Web wrote:
> This clears up a lot of things!  Thanks!

My Pleasure.

> I'm sure this is probably a lot more complicated, but what about adding a
> whole new physical disk to your system?  Do you just add it to fstab, format
> it, and away you go?  And what about moving existing parts of the file
> system onto the new disk?

Add the physical disk.
First you'll have to fdisk it. (equivalent to format(1M) on SunOS/Solaris)
This will set up the partitions as you want, and declare type.
Depeending on usage pattern multiple partiotions can be more advantageous
for smaller inode size.

If you have multiple physcial disks, I'd reccommend putting hte
swap partition on the less used disk.  This will improve HD life and
performance.

Once the disk has been fdisked you can then mkfs on the partitions desired.
(Equivalent to M$ format)

Then you can add them to your fstab and mount them.

For new swap partitions theres another step or so.  you have to runa
mkswap, and then a swapon, but I don't remember all the flags, I haven't
done it in too long.

-Scott

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