Re: Adding another hard drive to an existing system

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alright!  First, do you want to set it up for Linux?  I hope so...

Here's what you do:

1. Figure out what device it is... (it'll be in the form hdx, where x is
a letter between a and b--assuming it's an IDE drive).  If it's primary
master, it'll be hda, primary slave hdb, sec mast hdc, etc...

2. Run fdisk.  (As root) type 'fdisk hdx'--once again replacing x with
the appropriate letter.

3. Fdisk is pretty easy to follow.  You'll just need to create a new
Linux native partition.

4. Now, format it.  The command is: 'mkfs.ext2 /dev/hdx'

5. That's it!  You need to edit your /etc/fstab and give it a mount
point (/opt is good, or maybe you want to make it something else... I
dunno).  To make a mount point you need to create that directory in your
filesystem somewhere and then tell fstab that that device (/dev/hdx)
will be mounted at that mount point (/opt, for example).  You can
basically just copy one of the lines in fstab and change a couple things
to make it mount this drive.

6. To test just try to mount it.  For example, type 'mount /opt'  It
should say nothing.  If you get any kind of error message then it didn't
work.  Either keep trying (check out /etc/fstab to make sure it's right)
or send the group the error message.  Please be sure to send a copy of
your /etc/fstab if you have problems...


I know it sounds sort of complex but it's really just a progression of
logical steps... create partition, format, mount.

Good luck!
-- 
Wesley Leonard
marshall@pacdemon.org

http://www.pacdemon.org
"Death by misadventure"
	--Official cause of death of former AC/DC lead singer Bon Scott

> John Van Horn wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>   I need to add another hard drive to my existing system, I have it
> physicaly installed but how do I partition it and set it up to be used
> by the system, I checked the "How To index" but didnt find and
> destructions??? any suggestions?
> 
>       John
>