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Date:  Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:19:48 +0100
From:  Michael Stauber <bq (at mark) solarspeed.net>
Subject:  [coba-e:14370] Re: Slightly OT : installing second drive for backups
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Paul,

> I have a friend who has just set up a BQ box, using sata Raid for the
> drives which works great. He has added a separate drive specifically for
> backups (sdb) which has been formatted as EXT3 i believe.
>
> Me not being a linux guru was wondering if anyone could advise as to how to
> config/mount this drive so it's seen as a system drive, and also how to
> config raqbackup to use this internal drive (i tend to use the neuhaus
> configurator to produce the configs, as it's much easier and in English!)

So that 2nd drive is sdb, and has a single ext3 formatted partition on it?

Then lets say we want to mount it as /backups - in that case do this:

mkdir /backups

Then add the following line at the bottom of /etc/fstab:

/dev/sdb1	/backups	ext3    defaults        1 2

Once that's done you can mount the drive by typing:

mount /backups

To unmount:

umount /backups

And the /etc/fstab line will also automatically mount the drive when the 
server reboots.

-- 
With best regards,

Michael Stauber