I have just installed Opensuse on an old machine I intend to use as a server. Everything went well and the SAMBA stuff is working fine. I have only one problem
The machine has 2 hard drives fitted but only the first hard drive has been used. How do I get the OS to find the other hard drive? Sorry if this is a silly question but I am very new with Linux adn I haven’t found verything out yet.
Thanks for any help.
Did you look in YaST > System > Partitioning? It should be there ready to be configured for use by you.
On 2013-04-18 16:16, wheels5894 wrote:
>
> I have just installed Opensuse on an old machine I intend to use as a
> server. Everything went well and the SAMBA stuff is working fine. I have
> only one problem
>
> The machine has 2 hard drives fitted but only the first hard drive has
> been used. How do I get the OS to find the other hard drive? Sorry if
> this is a silly question but I am very new with Linux adn I haven’t
> found verything out yet.
Typically you partition that disk, add a filesystem to it (what in
Windows parlance would be “formatting the disk”), and finally “mount”
the disk somewhere. But we do not talk of “disks” here, a disk is the
entire metal thing. We talk of partitions and filesystems.
When that partition is mounted somewhere, what you see is simply a
directory somewhere, and everything under that directory goes to what
you knew in Windows as “disk”.
This is common to all unix/linux systems.
I suggest you have a look at doc.opensuse.org, there are books there you
could read for starting.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)