Hi,

Sometimes the process of partitioning a drive may be a little daunting. Well, some very talented folks have put together a dedicated tool for us.

It is a Live bootable iso, answer a couple of questions and you end up with some serious power in 28meg. You can even play a little tetris while waiting for the resize process

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php (Go for the live cd)

Mike

Using that program, how do you get myth to access the partition, if I was adding a second drive.

Hi

Depending on how you did the partitioning, and where it was connected would be factors. You still have to format the partitions also.

I can give an example assuming a usb drive. Probably would show up in dmesg or /var/log/messages when you plug it in and turn it on so you know how it is identified.

Again assuming you made two (2) partitions and they were formatted, then they should be device /dev/sd_1 & /dev/sd_2 (you fill a,b,c what ever is registered as) Then you can make an entry in the /etc/fstab to match the layout. You could add a folder in /mnt/usb1 /mnt/usb2 and mount them at those locatitions.

Using a memory stick which is preformatted as a fat system, I make a mount point as /stick then I add:
/dev/sda1 /stick vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 to my fstab. Now when I plug in a memory stick, wait a few seconds, I can simply mount /stick

Say you want to play with having a 20 gig usb drive just for music or gallery backup. You could mkdir /myth/store so there is a place to put it. Make edits to the /etc/fstab then you would simply mount /<your-name-storage> and it will appear as /myth/store.

From that point it is just like any other folder so you could cp -a /myth/gallery /myth/store/ and after a few moments have a backup.

Sorry for the vague answer but you gave me no details to work.
Mike