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well, to get you started, you will need to create a mount point in /mnt. If you are adding it as a third hard drive you can make a mount point called .../sdc. Now you need to create the partitions by using 'cfdisk /dev/sdc'. Assuming you have knowledge of cfdisk, just create your multiple partitions (if you want more than one) and write the new table to the MBR. Now, suppose you're using the jfs filesystem, you will have to mount the new drive with 'mount -t jfs /dev/sdc /mnt/sdc' or 'mount -t jfs /dev/sdc(x) /mnt/sdc' (x) is the number of the partition. Now that its mounted, you have to format it with whatever filesystem that you're using, like this (again, for jfs): 'mkfs jfs /dev/sdc' or 'mkfs jfs /dev/scd(x)'. Now, the drive is ready for use. The last step, which is optional depending on if you want the system to mount the drive automatically at boot time, is to add a line to your 'etc/fstab' file.
Thanks for the suggestions so far. The bit I'm not too sure of is how to 'attach' the new disk onto existing partitions. From the breakdown above, I'd like to add some space to /, /boot and /var. I've already used fdisk to create appropriately sized sdc1, sdc2 & sdc3, but how do they get allocated to existing partitions?
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