HOWTO? I want to add an additional HD

[Robert Brandtjen]

On Monday 19 August 2002 05:04 pm, Stefan Bruda wrote:
> and you are all set upon reboot (don't forget however to move the old
> content of /var/spool/mail to the new partition before you reboot,
> like you did for the /home directory).  By using variants of the above
> /etc/fstab entry you can basically mount a disk partition to replace
> any directory in the Unix file system tree.

There is no need to reboot the machine for the partitions to be usable - =
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drives I use for daily/weekly/monthly back-ups are always in an unmounted=
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state until I'm ready for the back-up process to begin, when the back-up =
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done, I unmount them.
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 Robert Brandtjen
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