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>6. Mount the new disk</A
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>Create a directory where you'll mount the new disk, for example
<TT
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>/new-disk</TT
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and mount it there:
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>mkdir /new-disk
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /new-disk</PRE
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>If the new disk will have more than one Linux partition, mount them
all under <TT
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with the same organization they'll have later.</P
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>Example. </B
>The new disk will have four Linux partitions, as follows:
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>/dev/hdb1: /
/dev/hdb2: /home
/dev/hdb3: /var
/dev/hdb4: /var/spool</PRE
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>Mount the four partitions under
<TT
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>/new-disk</TT
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>/dev/hdb1: /new-disk
/dev/hdb2: /new-disk/home
/dev/hdb3: /new-disk/var
/dev/hdb4: /new-disk/var/spool</PRE
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>You must create the mount points for each <I
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>level</I
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before you mount the partitions at that level.</P
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>Example. </B
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>mkdir /new-disk [1st level]
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb1 /new-disk
mkdir /new-disk/home [2nd level]
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 /new-disk/home
mkdir /new-disk/var [2nd level also]
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb3 /new-disk/var
mkdir /new-disk/var/spool [3rd level]
mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb4 /new-disk/var/spool</PRE
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>If you've created a mount point at
<TT
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>/new-disk/tmp</TT
>, you'll need to
correct the directory's permissions to let all users access it:
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>chmod 1777 /new-disk/tmp</PRE
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