adding extra hard disk over rhel5

raj.darkmystery · 12-24-2009, 04:16 AM

Hi guys..!!
I am trying to add a new hard disk over RHEL5. i tried to create a new partition table and my disk is getting detected as sdb1 (as i numbered it as 1).. but mounting over a new directory is not getting succesful.. any help or troubleshoot...

thanks in advance..

ongte · 12-24-2009, 06:07 AM

Here's a basic Step by Step:

Code:

# fdisk /dev/sda

Press “m” to get the help menu
Press “p” to print existing partition table
Press “n” to create new partition
Press “w” to save the partition created
To re-probe the partitions that you created. If you don’t run this command, the kernel won’t be able to see the partition.

Code:

# partprobe

This command is to format the partition with ext3 file system.

Code:

# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdaX

Mount the partition into a mount point to begin using it. You have to make that directory first of course.

Code:

# mount /dev/sdaX /mnt/data

Finally, you might want to make it permanent by adding the line in fstab.

Code:

# vi /etc/fstab
/dev/sdaX  /mnt/data  ext3  defaults 0 0

raj.darkmystery · 12-24-2009, 06:34 AM

thanks for the reply.. le'me try this.. thanks once again