I'm doing this from the top of my head, so use this as a guide. Read manual pages when things look inconsistent or you want more details. Reading all of the manual pages for all of these commands is recommended. For a cursory example, pull up a terminal window and do the following:
fdisk /dev/hdc # This is an interactive program, something like the following will be required
# n [Enter] - create a new partition
# p [Enter] - make it a primary partition
# 1 [Enter] - the first primary partition on the drive
# [Enter] [Enter] - have it fill the entire drive
# w - write the partition table to disk
# q - exit the program
fdisk /dev/hdd # repeat previous steps for the 2nd drive
mke2fs /dev/hdc1 # format the drive
mke2fs /dev/hdd1
mkdir /data1 # Make the directory where the disk will be mounted
mkdir /data2
mount /dev/hdc1 /data1 # Mount the hard drive
mount /dev/hdd1 /data2
After doing this, you can use the drives at those mount points. But, you want them to be mounted on start up, so you'll want to add them to the /etc/fstab file, with entries something like this:
/dev/hdc /data1 ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdc /data1 ext3 defaults 1 2
For more details about what each of those means, check out the fstab manual page.
Hope this helps as a starter in the right direction!
Aaron S. Joyner
Byarlay, Wayne A. wrote:
Hi,
I've got 2 new big hard drives, in this RH9 computer, and they show up in the hardware manager as /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd. I go to disk manager and there's nothing about adding/formatting disks..
How do I format & use these drives? as, say, /data1 and /data2?
wab.
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