Re: Simple question (new drive).

[Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq]

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> Alejandro González Hernández - Imoq wrote:
> 
>>Just a simple question:
>>
>>If I add a secondary brand new non-formated hard disk drive to my
>>already-running system, what are the commands to format it, make it usable?
>>
> 
> 1. 'fdisk /dev/hdb'
> 2. partition the drive the way you want it partitioned.
> 3. write the info to disk and exit fdisk.
> 4. for each partition do a 'mke2fs /dev/hdbX' (where X is the partition
> number).
> 5. create mount points for each partition (for example: mkdir /disk2)
> 6. mount the partitions (mount /dev/hdbX /disk2)
> 7. make an entry in /etc/fstab for the partitions. after you
> successfully mount the partitions, you can look in /etc/mtab and cut and
> paste the entries from mtab to fstab.
> 8. umount the partitions and do a 'mount -a' to test the fstab entries.
> 9. celebrate.


Thanks!

I am actually in the "celebration" part right now ;)

Alex.



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