If I understand what you are asking, it's pretty simple. I just tried the
following as a test, and it worked fine:
$ su
Password:
$ ls /home1
lost+found
$ df /home1
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 499620 13 473804 0% /home1
$ umount /home1
$ mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/x/y/z
$ mount /dev/hda7 /usr/local/lib/x/y/z
$ ls /usr/local/lib/x/y/z/
lost+found
$ df /usr/local/lib/x/y/z/
Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda7 499620 13 473804 0%
/usr/local/lib/x/y/z
So, for example, if your new hard drive/partition is /dev/hdc1, simply
replace /dev/hda7 above with /dev/hdc1 and /usr/local/... with the
directory you want to mount. Of course, you'll first need to make a
filesystem on /dev/hdc1. man mkfs should tell you how to do that.
Edit /etc/fstab to mount the new filesystem on bootup.
Is this what you are asking?
[By the way, assuming I understood your question correctly, it would
probably fit better in a linux sys admin group rather than c.o.l.h.]
>Is it possible to add a single partition hard-drive to my system, then mount
>that partition somewhere deep in the filesystem? For example, I'd like to
>add a whole drive that holds nothing but the multimedia content of my
>website, but I'd like to mount it's partition under my webserver's root. If
>I can do this, can someone point me to an article or something to show me
>how?
>Here's my system stats: RedHat 7.0 on an AMD Duron 650 with 128 megs of RAM,
>Apache for the webserver.
>If you're curious, check out what I've got at www.nitewaryr.com :-)
>Thanks!
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Jim Cochrane
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