Hi,

We just bought a new INTEL XEON DualProcessor server with 160GB HDD.

I will install Windows 2003 Server on 80GB & RHEL 4.0 on the remaining

Windows will have 3 partitons c: 30GB, D:30GB & E: 20GB

Now we have purchased another disk of 160GB

How will I spilt the disk in Windows[80GB] & RHEL[80GB]. For windows is OK but how can I add the 2nd disk with 80GB to RHEL

What steps I have to follow

Thanks in advance

Regards,

Manoj Patil.

First you'll need to make the partitions and create the filesystem for those partitions. You can do that with qtparted (for example)

Then you need to mount the new partition(s) in your linux OS.

To do so as toor isue the following commands:

#mkdir /mnt/newpartition (to make a mountpoint in /mnt with the name of your choice)

#mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb2 /mnt/newpartition (provided the new HDD is connected as slave to the 1st ide cable (hdb) and the linux partition is the second (2) primary partition on the disk and the fle system type (-t) is ext3)

If that worked you're ready to add a line to fstab (/etc/fstab) so that the partition will be automatically mounted the next time you reboot.

/dev/hdb2 /mnt/newpartition ext3 defaults,users,umask=000 0 0 (that should do it.)

I might add:

The very first thing you may want to do after physically installing the drive is do a cfdisk to find out what device the drive is assigned, and what file system is recognized (if any). If you are using IDE, the second drive will probably be /dev/hdb.

You can check that with fdisk, if you don't have cfdisk.

# fdisk -l (or /sbin/fdisk -l)
will give you full info about alla available drives and their partitions / free space