RE: [cobalt-users] Adding 2nd drive to Raq4i, doesn't appear in gui

["jim st john" <jim@xxxxxxxx>]

>> >Did you go through the GUI to add your new drive?  Click
"Maintenance"
>> >on the System Admin menu, then choose "Storage" at the top of the
>> >screen. It will do all the appropriate steps for you to format the
>> >drive, create a filesystem, etc.
>>
>> >Once you add the 2nd drive, you can then choose to locate all new
>> >virtual sites on it, or on the original /home system if you wish.
>>
>> I guess this is where I am confused, what needs to be done manually
and
>> what needs to be done through the gui.  When I originally installed
the
>> drive (new, not partitioned), it was not recognized by the gui at
all.
>> All I saw was the original entry for my existing 'home' partition,
and
>> even that was greyed out.  I had *no* option to do *anything* related
to
>> storage via the gui.
>>
>> Is the partitioning of a new drive normally done via the gui?  If so,
>> I'm not sure why it's not recognizing the existence of it.

>I think there is some confusion here - the RaQ4 doesn't have the
facility >to
>add a drive through the GUI - I'm told if you do a rebuild with the
second
>drive in then it will then be recognised and show up under the storage
>section and can be selected in the way described.  I think the RaQ3 had
>this
>add storage button but it disappeared somewhere when it became the RaQ
>possibly because we had the RaQ4R.

>Hope this gives some pointers - I suppose what you really need is how
to
>push the GUI by setting up the drive under the hood and making any mods
>that
>would be made in an OSRCD situ as I take it you probably don't want to
do a
>rebuild.

>Gavin

A rebuild is not out of the question, but a tweak to force the gui to
see the new drive would be easier.  Couple of questions though:  If I do
a rebuild with two drives in place will the 2nd drive just be
automatically wiped and set up as a single large 2nd /home partition?
Or will I have some configuration options available to me via the gui?

The closest that I have come to being able to make the gui see the new
drive is to mount it as /home2.  It then shows up as a second 'home'
partition in the storage section of the gui but all options are greyed
out and I can't change anything.  Also, if I then go to add a new site,
it does *not* show this 2nd home partition as an available storage
choice.

-jim-