Adding New Hard Drive 2

[Willy2782]

My question is let's just say that I installed RH in a system with just one Hard Drive but along the way I add a second Drive only for Data . What are the steps in configuring the drive in the system (OS)

 

[stefanwagner]

You plugged in power and the data-cable.
Now let's assume you have two controllers, one had a hd plugged in, the other a cdrom.
Their names are hda and hdc.
You plugged it in as second drive to the existing harddrive, so it is hdb, else hdd, else ... ?

You boot.
Then

fdisk /dev/hdb
(fdisk-commands: m(enu=help) l(ist) ...)

you choose a nice partition type, ext3 or reiserfs or jfs.
One big partition? OK.
You make a partition for reiserfs - assumed.
And write, exit fdisk.

Then you make the filesystem.

mkfs.reiserfs

Pretty fast it is done.
Now you create a mount-target.
Do you have an '/opt'-dir?

mkdir /opt
mount /dev/hdb1 /opt -t reiserfs defaults

Note: Since there is only one partition, it is hdb1, a second would be hdb2. ...

If it works, you write a similar line to /etc/fstab, to have it mountable by 'mount /opt'. Other mount-options might be found by looking at the other entries.

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[clonny2]

Here ya go.
Adding a Second Hard Drive to linux system.

http://www.tek-tips.com/faqs.cfm?spid=54&sfid=3373

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