--- smeserver-usbdisksmanager-0.2/root/etc/e-smith/locale/en-us/etc/e-smith/web/functions/usbdisks.removehelp 2007-04-10 06:50:22.000000000 +1000
+++ smeserver-usbdisksmanager-0.2/root/etc/e-smith/locale/en-us/etc/e-smith/web/functions/usbdisks 2008-04-19 18:40:56.000000000 +1000
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
- /!\ UUID must be supported by the disk / device filesystem Usbdisks purpose is to help managing USB, and also FireWire, hard drives
+ UUID must be supported by the disk / device filesystem How to :
-Frequency : in minutes between two disk check (CRON job)
-UUID : drive identification connect to command line and execute as it seems to be impossible to do through the cgi interface:
-
-/!\ Firewire is not fully implemented in centos (so SME) kernel.
-If you want to use a firewire disk you need to use your own compiled kernel or the one from centosplus. Be carefull you will need to compil appletalk,
-ppp an slip kmod for the kernel you choose (centosplus one or you own).
-
-****** Configuration
-
-Status : enable or disable the automatic job completly
-Status /media/ kown : enable or disable auto mount in /media/ of known drives
-Status /media/ unknown : enable or disable auto mount in /media/ of unknown drives
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-To allow to auto mount you need to enable in the configuration "Status",
-then add your drive and set a mount point that really exists and finally set this drive to enable
-
-
-****** Add , Modify a drive
-
-MountTo : directerory where you whant to mount this drive
-Options Mount : mount options for this drive (see man mount)
-Status : enable or disable auto mount to the defined directory for this drive (need to have the contrib set to enabled into configuration)
-Status media : enable or disable auto mount into /media directory (need to have the option enabled into the configuration)
-
-****** your drive ext2 or ext3 has no UUID
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-
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-("device" should be sda1 if it is the partition you wants to point to)
-
connect to command line and execute as it seems to be impossible to do through the cgi interface:
-
Before anything else:
-You must be aware that a removable device will have name like /dev/sd[a-z]{1} (sda, sdb , sdc ....) under linux. -If you have only IDE (ATA) drives on your server there is no problem as they will be named: /dev/hd[a-z]{1} (hda, hdb, hdc...). -But if you have some SATA or SCSI drives thay will have same kind of name that can have a removable drive : sda ...
-Drive named /dev/md[1-0]+ are some kind of software image of the real drives due to the LVM/ software RAID of SME.
-Be carrefull when you choose your drive not to choose one of your system drive !. -*If you are not 100% certain of what you do just format your drive on another computer UNDER linux.
-Never format your drive under windows with a software like partition magic TM, you will fail using this drive because of some error resulting oon the format: -impossible to create a UUID and other kind of things that are needed.
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1- connect to you SME consol, and connect the drive (USB/firewire)
-2- search for connected drive with this command: -
3- create a new partition (change X for the letter that correspond to your drive):
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4- format your new partition ( change X with what is needed for you, and same thing for the 1 if you have done more than one partition on your new drive)
-5- convert from ext2 to ext3
-6- enable quotas (optionel)
-7- add a Label (change X to what is needed for you, same thing for the 1 if needed)
- (MyLAbel must have no space and short)
8- check everything is OK: UUID, Label (change X to what is needed for you, same thing for the 1 if needed) :
-if it is not correct for UUID see the section above concerning how to add a UUID (you need a UUID to use this contrib)
-9- Your drive is ready
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