Thursday, July 20, 2006

 

HOWTO: Configure New Hard Drive in Linux

Let's assume that new hard drive is istalled as /dev/sdc. Following actions perform as root.

# fdisk /dev/sdc

Format as ext3 filesystem
# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdc

# cd /
# mkdir u02

Mount new drive on mount point /u02
# mount /dev/sdc /u02

Then add a line in /etc/fstab for example, where "3" is next available number:
#/dev/sdc /u02 ext3 defaults 1 3

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