adding new HD to existing partition

jcai · 06-06-2006, 01:02 PM

i want to add a new hard drive to my existing partition. Does anyone know if this is possible?

Thanks

camorri · 06-06-2006, 01:26 PM

I highly dought it. An existing partition will be on a device, for example hda or hdb. So the partition would be something like hdb1 ( first partition on second drive ).

The new drive will become hdc, so when you partition it, its first partition will be hdc1.

WhatsHisName · 06-07-2006, 10:55 AM

Maybe you meant:

“Is it possible to add a filesystem on a new drive to my installed/existing filesystem?”

And yes, that’s easy to do through /etc/fstab. Create a mount point (if needed) for the new filesystem, edit fstab to reflect the new mount point and then mount it.

Remember, you mount the filesystem that a partition holds, not the partition. Although people talk about mounting partitions (me included), what we really mean is mounting the filesystem.