[Pc_Support] Adding 400 GB HDD to SuSE 9.2 system ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

.... I am preparing to add a 400 GB Samsung HDD to my 2.4 GHz P4, 
running SuSE 9.2, all stock. I already have a 160 GB Samsung, mounted as 
/home, which I installed a couple of years ago. I am a bit fuzzy on the 
process of making a filesystem on that drive :-). The last time (on the 
160 GB drive), I called mkreiserfs (8) on the whole drive, /dev/hdb, not 
a partition (/dev/hdb1), since I was using the whole drive & didn't 
divide it into partitions :-). I have had intermittent reliability 
problems w/ that drive ever since, more of them recently. I also have 
the same situation on this machine (933 MHz PIII, SuSE 8.2, all stock, 
20 GB second drive mounted as /home, but addressed as /dev/hdb1 even 
though that partition is in fact the whole drive), w/ absolutely *NO* 
reliability/stability issues. Would someone refresh me on the steps to 
get this drive (the 400 GB) up & going :-) ? TIA

-- 
	William A. Mahaffey III

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