Re: Adding new harddrive

["Pete Peterson" <petersonp genrad com>]

>From redhat-install-list-admin redhat com  Fri Feb  2 09:05:22 2001
>From: info edoc co za
>To: redhat-install-list redhat com
>Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:55:01 +0200
>Subject: Adding new harddrive
>
>Hi,
>
>I would like to add a new harddrive to my Linux 5.2 server.  I intend 
>to move my current /usr partition to the new drive.
>
>How do I go about it.
>
>The drive is installed, and I got to fdisk and partitioning went fine.
>Next step I presume is formatting it.
>What is the Linux equivalent of Dos Format?

OK -- If you partitioned the disk successfully, it must be already
formatted, so you need to create a file system on it.  This is ONE of the
TWO different things that Micro$oft calls "formatting".

The appropriate command is "mkfs" (make file system).

You would do something like:
    mkfs -c /dev/hdb1
to put a filesystem on the first partition of the second IDE drive or
   mkfs -c /dev/sdb2
to put a filesystem on the second partition of the second SCSI drive.

You can omit the "-c" if you don't want/need to check for bad blockss
before creating the file system.  "man mkfs" will give you more details,
but it's totally trivial, as you can see from the above.

>I did not install the X-Windows on the server, and can only use 
>commandline instructions.

Well, the commandline procedure is much easier to describe (see above) than
trying to describe how to navigate 8 levels of GUI menus.  :-)

>Nico van der Dussen


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