How feasible is this?

[rev667]

Hi,

I have a pogoplug (pink/grey) running Arch on an 8Gb usb stick. I've got a lamp server running and it's great!
I have also restored the plugs original function so it appears on mypogo.com. I've even installed a lightweight desktop and can vnc into the plug and have a nice desktop.

Now I'm wanting to add a usb hdd, but rather than format the whole thing as a single linux partiton. I want to make a small partiton for arch, a swap partiton, and a data partiton (fat32). The purpose would be to share the data partition to the network via samba, and have the data partition appear on mypogo, and be able to plug the drive into my old windoze box if needs be to access the data. I would point apache to the data partiton so the hosted content could be accessed/modified from any machine on the network.

As the price of mobile hdds falls, I might even add a 2nd drive, but see lots of threads where booting the plug with more than one drive attached causes a headache.

How feasible and/or easy would this be to implement?

Tia

Rev667

[Socaltom]

On the E2 booting with several drives attached worked fine for me.
Tom

[grayman4hire]

Very doable.

I have a 1TB portable HD attached to my PogoPlug. There are potential issues with booting to the correct drive consistently. To avoid the issue, I went ahead and partitioned my 1TB HD with a 4GB boot partition and the rest for data (no usb flash drive). For simplicity I went with a swapfile versus a swap partition and ext3 for the data partition versus fat32/ntfs. The drive is dedicated to the pogoplug (no plans to unplug and plug into my computer). SAMBA, my.pogoplug.com, etc is pointed at the data partition.

Take a look at this thread when you are ready to add an second hard drive - viewtopic.php?f=18&t=5329