On 26/09/13 20:33, John R Pierce wrote:
> On 9/26/2013 11:30 AM, Phil Dobbin wrote:
>> I have a CentOS server (a Dell 860) with two drives in it.
>>
>> One is running CentOS 6.4 which I want to keep & the bigger 400GB drive
>> has Debian 7 on it which I want to erase & use for backups.
>>
>> Which is the best way to go about achieving my intended goal? The Debian
>> drive is not mounted when Centos is booted.
> this 400GB drive is /dev/sdb ?
>
> as root...
> fdisk /dev/sdb
> and delete all partitions, create a new linux partition thats
> the full size of the disk, exit fdisk.
> mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
> mkdir /backups
>
> edit /etc/fstab and add a line to the bottom like:
> /dev/sdb1 /backups ext3 defaults 1 2
>
> now, mount /backups
>
> voila, done. your backups will be mounted as /backups when you reboot.
>
>
Thanks to everybody for their input but I think I'll go with the method
above. The disk is virtually a virgin Debian install so no secret or
critical files are aboard & I think this should suffice.
Thanks for your help,
Cheers,
Phil...
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