Re: [Hampshire] Adding a new system disk

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Author: hantslug
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Adding a new system disk
On Thursday 29 Mar 2007 22:52, Luke Stutters wrote:
>  > 2. If I do make the change, will the present system still boot
>  > correctly if I tell the bios to boot from /dev/hdb?  If not, is there
>  > a way around the  problem without moving the disks around more than
> once?
>
> No, you will need to change /etc/fstab at least. I don't have a decent
> link for this one, couldn't see anything on the LUG wiki.


I have never changed fstab. fstab picks up the disk I have installed on.
E.g. on the box I am typing this on:

/dev/hdc1     /               reiserfs defaults                     0      1


And several times I have installed on the slave and again fstab has sorted
this out for itself.

Lisi