add another hard disk on Fedora Linux

[jludwig]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 2:20 pm, Robin Laing wrote:
> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > weetat writes:
> >> Hi all ,
> >>
> >>     I have the SCSI hard disk which have disk space is full .
> >>     I need to add new hard disk to the hard disk.
> >>     Any how-to or manual documentation in net that i can read ?
> >
> > You can read fdisk's man page.
> >
> > Presumably, your existing drive is /dev/sda.
> >
> > After you attach your second drive, it should be detected as /dev/sdb.
> >
> > Then, use fdisk to create partitions on /dev/sdb, mkfs to format them
> > (presumably as ext3), figure out where you want to mount them, add them
> > to /etc/fstab, and you're good to go.
>
> You many also want to read about Logical Volume Management as a way to
> add drives and combine them as one logical drive.  I am new to this as
> well but if you have growing HD needs, this looks great.
If you copy files and directories over remember to keep their owners and 
permissions.
Also hard links will fail if between drives since they must be on the same 
drive and partition.