How to add a SCSI disk? 3

[Tels]

Hi ,there I hope someone can help,
I have a PPro 200 machine with a 3.1GB IDE drive and 6 SCSI drives.

When I installed RH7.1 I selected automatic partitioning as I had problems booting previously, and had to use a boot disk.

As a result Linux will only mount the IDE drive.
(although a small partition on sda1 is used as a swap)
What steps do I have to go through to configure and mount these drives?

Thanks in advance

Tels Mixed Linux/Win2000 Network Administrator

 

[fluid11]

You need to run fdisk on each SCSI drive and create partitions, and later mount them with mkfs. Start with the first disk, /dev/sda.

fdisk /dev/sda

Be careful to not overwrite the swap partition you already have on /dev/sda1. Create the paritions that you want and then move on to SCSI disk #2 --> /dev/sdb, and so on.

After your partitions are set, format the drives in the filesystem that you want to use. RH71's default is ext2, I believe. I'm not sure if ext3 came about until RH72 or not.

After you have formatted partitions, add them to the /etc/fstab file so that they will be mounted automatically at boot-up.

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[Tels]

solid gold tip. You wouldn't believe how little this is documented on the web!! Mixed Linux/Win2000 Network Administrator