Driver partitions

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Hi, my first post in this forum.
I have for my first time managed to setup a openSUSE server for backups etc.
But one driver is missing in the System monitor / File system. But i can find the driver when I open YaST Expert Partition.

An image how it looks.
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Can someone help me with whats wrong, is the partitions wrong or something?
Please be patient, im new with the linux enviroment.
(but i managed to setup samba an remote desktop :D)

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It’s not clear to me what your problem is. I see /
in the sys mon

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Thx for the fast reply.
Well when i check the partitions I can see I got 2 HDDs. But when i check the file system I only got 1 HDD. What do i need to do to be able to use driver “sdb” ?

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I’m going to guess at you wanting sdb2 which I assume is a /home of another distro?

You need a folder to mount it to really. Create on on the / tree
Call it whatever you like: eg; Fedora9* (* change as needed)

Now you need to edit /etc/fstab

open a terminal

gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab

add this line:

/dev/sdb2 /Fedora9* ext3 uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0022 0 0

reboot

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It may be true that it is home to another distro, but i just whant that as storagespace on the “main” distro. Is it as simple as deleting the partitions and create new ones or should i do what u wrote caf?

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First do this: copy and paste /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst here

gnomesu gedit /etc/fstab

gnomesu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

the above will open the file, you can copy and paste here:

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We just need to establish if your system has loaded the other distro in to the menu.

Also of importance here: Which HD is set first in BIOS? hda or hdb??

That will help us determine where grub is installed

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Do I undertstand that you want to destroy everything on sdb and just use it as diskspace?

When yes, goto YaST > System > Partitioner. Select the respective sdb partitions (from the end of the list backward) and click Delete until you are left with just sdb itself (of course do not touch any sda entry!).

You can now make new partitions on sdb. You need at least one. So standing on sdb click Create and fill in the details. ext3 for fs-type should befine. For mount point just enter where yoy want the space. Some use it for a general database and mount it at /database. Others give it to a certain user and mount it at /home/<username>/music (in this case do not forget to make the user owner of this directory afterwards). It is up to you how many partitions you want and wehere you want to have them.