How do I add a hard drive
Scot L. Harris
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Fri Feb 18 05:02:54 UTC 2005
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 23:20, Ankush Grover wrote:
> hey,
>
> See that is not possbile as /usr is already mounted.
>
> You need to create another mount partition like
>
> /share
Actually you can create a mount point as a sub directory on an existing
file system. You don't have to have a mount point at the root level.
Very common (and used to be the standard) to create mount points under
the /mnt directory, /mnt/cdrom, /mnt/floppy etc. I believe the new
standard is to use /media for this kind of stuff.
It does not have to go any particular location though. But you do have
to be careful not to mount a drive over a directory that is being used
like /etc or /usr or /var (assuming the last two are not separate file
systems to begin with)
This is also a common way to lose may gigabytes of disk space. Have
seen entire directory trees appear empty because a file system was
mounted over a full directory. And you can't figure out why that drive
is so full. :)
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