I'm just playing around on my Fedora 7 box. It has a pair of 80GB IDE disks in it. The OS is installed on the primary (master) drive.

I wanted to try the process of adding the 2nd disk as a "play" area with a mount point called "junk".

1. fdisk /dev/sdb
2. n (new partition), used whole disk, made it a primary, chose partition #1
3. w - wrote changes and exited from FDISK
4. mke2fs -j /dev/sdb ("formatted" using ext3fs filesystem)
5. mkdir /junk
6. mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /junk
7. I added an entry into /etc/fstab for the new disk

How did I do?

I am coming up to speed using training videos from CBT Nuggets which are based on RH9...dated, but the instructor is good. The filesystem layout is different in RHEL and Fedora, but I figured adding a 2nd disk would be similar?

Thanks,
VHCG

With the command: fdisk -l you can see if you have a partition. You must mount the partition, not the drive, which should be similar to /dev/sdb1 not /dev/sdb which is the drive.

Hi,
You would make the filesystem on the partition you create on device '/dev/sdb' which would be '/dev/sdb1' for the first partition by; You should then mount the filesystem on the partition for the device '/dev/sdb' which would be '/dev/sdb1'; The entry for the '/etc/fstab' should look something like;

Got it!

Thank you very much for the responses.

VHCG