Add A New Hardrive Linux | Ycsoftware.net

You just purchased your new hard drive and now you are ready to add it to your Linux system. Here are the steps:

1. Plug in the hard drive

2. Make sure that the bios can see it (Attention vmware users, the bios may not display the new drive)

3. Navigate to the /dev folder and locate your hard drive

4. IDE drive are hda(X ), scsi drive are sda(X) with X being a number

5. Create the partition using parted or fdisk.

6. Then Format the partition using mkfs

mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb2

7. Then Mount the file System

For Example: mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb2 /ycsoftware.

8. Add an entry into fstab if necessary

9. Done.

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