FC3 auto mount HDD and start samba

[cjohnson_uk]

I've got a box with the LTSP distro of FC3 on it. Since installing it I've added an 80GB drive to use as my shared data drive. I installed samba during the initial setup.
I can share the data partition via samba on the first HDD but I still have eto log in to start SMBD as it doesn't start by default.

I'd like to do the following:

clear the existing partitions off the 80GB drive (old NTFS stuff)
partition it as one partition and get it mounted at boot
start samba at boot
share the 80gb partition through samba

Firstly whats the best way of losing the existing data and partitions and createing new ones? FDISK? Whats the best way of formatting this new partition?

I've greped through /etc/ for files containing "mount" but I can't see where to add the mount command for my new partition.

And I can't work out where to start smbd either

Oh and I need all the mounting and stuff to happen automatically before user login so I just press the power button and 5 mintues later I have access to the shared folder.

Any help appreciated.

Chris

[ilja]

Originally Posted by cjohnson_uk

clear the existing partitions off the 80GB drive (old NTFS stuff)

fdisk is quite good for it

Originally Posted by cjohnson_uk

partition it as one partition and get it mounted at boot

it depends very much which filesystem you prefer I would take ext3 or reiserfs.
With mke2fs -j /dev/hdXX you can format a partition as ext3 (instead of the XX the name of the partition see fdisk -l)

Originally Posted by cjohnson_uk

start samba at boot

http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#services

Originally Posted by cjohnson_uk

I've greped through /etc/ for files containing "mount" but I can't see where to add the mount command for my new partition.

/etc/fstab

Originally Posted by cjohnson_uk

Oh and I need all the mounting and stuff to happen automatically before user login so I just press the power button and 5 mintues later I have access to the shared folder.

If configured correctly it will happen at the boot. In most cases you won't reboot a linux box, if there is no need for it.

[cjohnson_uk]

I've always used reidserfs before as I've learned on Suse. I did a man-k reiser but it didn't come up with anything. Is reiserfs support built in to fc3?

I've used ext3 as for my home network I don't think thisany benefit either way. (Am I right?)

OK this is the bit I forgot last time:

My /home is currently mounted on /dev/hda2

I want to move all this to dev/hdb1

Where to I reset where /home is mounted from at boot

[ilja]

Moving home : a really great article can be found here http://www-106.ibm.com/developerwork...-partplan.html
Reiserfs: Sorry I never worked with reiserfs, so I don't know anything about it.
But I don't think that there is a great difference between reiserfs and ext3. (ext3 is even more "official")

[cjohnson_uk]

Thanks for this. It seems to work great. Now to do the hard stuff.....