Paul wrote; Sunday, November 23, 2008 5:07 PM
>
> 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!)
>
> Many thanks in advance for any advice!
Install the drive in the system
Boot up System and partition the new drive:
fdisk /dev/sdb
Then
mke3fs /dev/sdb1 (for each partition n)
Decide where you will be mounting it and create a mount point.
For example, if you will mount it as /mnt/backup, as root,
cd /mnt
mkdir backup
chmod 777 backup (makes the new drive accessible to ordinary
users)
As root, mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup
cd /mnt/backup
echo "test" > test (testing the drive)
cat test (you should see test as output)
rm test (remove the file test)
If all the above worked all is OK
Add the following line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup ext3 defaults 1 1
The spare drive is mounted, and should mount again on reboot.
Gerald