adding a new hard drive to an existing system
Sandy Pond
sandy_pond at myrealbox.com
Tue Mar 2 03:47:32 UTC 2004
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 22:24 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> alton bailey writes:
>
> > I would like to add a new drive to my system running FC2 T1 what program do
> > I use to fommat and mount it
>
> After adding the hard drive you need to determine its device name. If the
> new drive is the second IDE drive it'll be /dev/hdb. If the new drive is
> the second SCSI drive it'll be /dev/sdb.
>
> Use fdisk to partition the new drive, then mkfs to partition it. Afterwards
> use mount to mount it; and add it to /etc/fstab to have it mounted at system
> boot.
>
> That's assuming kudzu won't do that already anyway. If kudzu doesn't do
> this, I think it should.
Also, in the menu "System Tools -> Hardware Browse" is a handy tool.
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