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1/19/2005

 
Add an extra hard drive to a linux box

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ADD AN EXTRA HARD DRIVE

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#run fdisk

/sbin/fdisk /dev/hdb

# inside fdisk, create new partition

n

# primary

p

# with default sizes (all HD) RET RET

#Write and save partition table

w

#Then format the partition to ext3 (will take some time)

/sbin/mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1

#Mount partition

mkdir /opt2

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /opt2

#To add definitively, edit /etc/fstab

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1

LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2

none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0

/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /opt2 ext3 defaults 1 2

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

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