new hard drive

cloudnyne132 · 04-11-2004, 10:41 PM

i just put in a new hard drive. what do i do to partition it and stuff. running redhat 9.

2damncommon · 04-11-2004, 10:54 PM

1. Decide the number and types of partitions you want to have.
2. Partition the disk. I prefer cfdisk.
3. Format the partition(s) as needed. (mke2fs, mkreiserfs, mkdosfs, etc.)
You disk is then ready to be mounted and used. Create fstab entries if you wish.

watashiwaotaku7 · 04-11-2004, 10:57 PM

run dmesg and look for the new drive label, if its ide then it will be /dev/hdx x being a letter a-z then type cfdisk /dev/hdx x being the letter of your drive and partition as you like, then use mke2fs or mkreiserfs to put a specific filesystem on the drive, once your done edit yoru /etc/fstab to add the drive there may be easier ways to do it in redhat but this is the universal way