Re: adding harddisk

["Mikkel L. Ellertson" <mikkel Infinity-ltd com>]

On 1 Jul 2000 kabir citenet net wrote:

> Suppose I want to add a third hard disk to my system and it is installed
> [1] What tool can I use to partititon it . I know diskdruid is onetime shot.
> [2] How can I format it so linux will recognise it on bootup
> 
> I have RHL 6.1
> Larry Mintz<kabir citnenet net>
> 
Larry,
	You can use fdisk or cfdisk to partition it.  I like cfdisk
better.  Then run mke2fs to format the partation it.  If you are running
three SCSI drives, and made 2 partations, you would use something like:

cfdisk /dev/sdc
mke2fs /dev/sdc1
mke2fs /dev/sdc2

For IDE drives, it depends on the controler and master/slave.
/dev/hda	IDE0 master
/dev/hdb	IDE0 slave
/dev/hdc	IDE1 master
/dev/hdd	IDE1 slave
/dev/hde	IDE2 master
/dev/hdf	IDE2 slave
/dev/hdg	IDE3 master
/dev/hdh	IDE3 slave

For partation numbers, it depends on what you creat with (c)fdisk.

After you get it formatted, put entries for the new partations in
/etc/fstab.  You can edit it by hand, use Linux config, or Red Hat's GUI
based tools...

Mikkel 
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