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[Bluz]

If I order a server with say two 1TB hard drives, how would I get my script/ftp client to go on the 2nd drive or to use the 2nd drive? I was sort of thinking of getting one for a few vpses for me and a couple friends but none of use know how the second hard drive would be used, if just in shell we would type cd d:\home or what?

[Vinayak_Sharma]

If this is for Linux, you don't use "C:" or "D:" rather /foldername as the second HDD has to be mounted as a folder.

How to use, depends on how you want it, you can either use them in RAID or you can use it for backup.

[artemirk]

You will use *nix system in server?

openvz allow put different vps to different HDD.

In shell 2nd hdd will mount to sime dir. For example /vz/private2 and you use
cd /vs/private2


You can use LVM or stripe0 and create one 2TB partition.

[tweakservers]

If you are on Windows and for FTP to connect to the second drives, the way is to create the FTP account in the IIS which has the physical path points to your second drive. When your users FTP in, they are automatically uploading files to there.

[SamBarrow]

The point in having two drives is usually RAID for redundancy, if you weren't planning on setting up RAID you should definitely reconsider.

[Bluz]

Ok so from my understanding if I get a server with 4 2TB drives they will be just folders under / right?

[SamBarrow]

Yes but not automatically, you have to mount them, or put them in the /etc/fstab file for automatic mounting.

mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/folder

where sdXY is the drive (sd + letter for drive + number for partition).

[Bluz]

^ How exactly do I know the number for the partition? And how would I find the drive name

[SamBarrow]

Go in /dev and type:

ls sd*

You will have to format your drives with the proper partitions though first keep in mind. However that's all pretty easy these days with the graphical Linux installers like CentOS has.

[Bluz]

Thanks alot!