secondary hard drive

[Eric Oyen]

Well, it’s a bit complicated.

Yes, an external drive can be used in this fashion. However, if there is a problem (like say the drive not being connected), it could cause the boot process to fail or hang. Also, at what point are the mount points initiated? If after the driver module load, then not much of a problem. However, if before modules are properly loaded, it could result in a system hang on boot. Would there be any way to mount said drive internally instead?

Now, I have played with the idea of using an external HDD for /home. It works fine until it doesn’t, then it turns into a nightmare. And yes, doing so by USB introduces several other factors, including transfer rates, I/o contention and the like. For a temp setup, this will work, but for the long haul, IMHO, I don’t think so.

-Eric
From the Central Offices of the Technomage Guild, Research and Development dept.


> On Oct 3, 2022, at 10:18 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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> I'm getting my kids  each their own computer. It's good enough to run oolite with the 1.1 ghz celron so their not going to be able to play any real modern games  but I was wondering about the hard drive. It is only 32GB. I was thinking of putting root on the 32GB drive and a second /home drive for the primary user on an external ssd. Is that possible?
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