Re: adding a new hard drive to an existing system

[Sandy Pond <sandy_pond myrealbox com>]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 22:24 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> alton bailey writes:
> 
> > I would like to add a new drive to my system running FC2 T1 what program do 
> > I use to fommat and mount it
> 
> After adding the hard drive you need to determine its device name.  If the 
> new drive is the second IDE drive it'll be /dev/hdb.  If the new drive is 
> the second SCSI drive it'll be /dev/sdb.
> 
> Use fdisk to partition the new drive, then mkfs to partition it.  Afterwards 
> use mount to mount it; and add it to /etc/fstab to have it mounted at system 
> boot.
> 
> That's assuming kudzu won't do that already anyway.  If kudzu doesn't do 
> this, I think it should.

Also, in the menu "System Tools -> Hardware Browse" is a handy tool.