[ale] samba conf

[Wandered Inn]

Luis Luna wrote:
> 
> Dear God,
> I just want to have one folder...........

First off, you are not better off with NT.  I speak from experience, so
let's see what we can do.  I've got some pointers below, that don't even
begin to touch on Samba yet, but let's see if we can get these things
straight first.

You're touching on a lot of stuff here.  Let me see if I can break some
of it down.

You made reference to /dev/hdc1. Your /etc/fstab file you presented,
indicates that your cdrom is /dev/hdb, so it makes sense that your new
drive probably is /dev/hdc.  Also you have to references to a mount
point named / in that example.  You can't do that.  You can only have
one '/' mount point in your /etc/fstab file.  Each drive should have a
unique mount point. But we are getting ahead of ourselves here.

First, to create a file system you do the following:

fdisk /dev/hdc

Sounds like you got this far.  So you have 1 or more drives named:

/dev/hdc1, /dev/hdc2..../dev/hdcN

Now you must format it:

mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdc1

Now you must create a mount point for it:

mkdir /mountpoint

'/mountpoint' is going to be an empty directory in your root
directory.   You can call it whatever you want.

Now mount it:

mount -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 /mountpoint

Now to list the contents of that drive:

ls -l /mountpoint

Make a directory on the new drive:

mkdir /mountpoint/newdirectory

To make it easier to mount, put the following in /etc/fstab:

/dev/hdc1    /mountpoint   ext2    defaults    1 2

Now you can mount by doing:

mount /mountpoint


Also, it will be mounted automatically when you boot.  If you don't want
it to mount when you boot change /etc/fstab to:

/dev/hdc1    /mountpoint    ext2  noauto    1 2


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