New Hardrive

ggramajo · 10-20-2001, 04:46 PM

Anyone can give me details of what to do when i´m trying to add a new harddrive to a RedHat Linux 6.1 Box.

Thanks in advance,

Gabriel.

acid_kewpie · 10-20-2001, 07:14 PM

install the drive, and get to a prompt as root, then run diskdruid, cfdisk, or fdisk, in order of niceness...

use the program to create the partitions you require, and then format them with mke2fs.

after that add each relevant mountpoint to /etc/fstab, best to test it out first tho, if your planning on moving /usr or /home etc... to a new partition.

ggramajo · 10-20-2001, 10:07 PM

Thanks for your reply. When you tell me run mk2efs which exactly is the line of command i must run. Because i do it but i receiving an error where rebooting the system related to the new line in the fstab file.

Thanks again,

Gabriel.

acid_kewpie · 10-21-2001, 04:49 AM

you should just be able to use:

mke2fs /dev/hdb5 for example. if you're not sure what the name of the partition is, cfdisk will show you.

once formatted, try mounting it manually

mount -t ext2 /dev/hdb /mnt/disk

once you can do that, then you can alter teh etc/fstab

ggramajo · 10-21-2001, 08:31 AM

I´ll appreciate all your help Chris.

Thanks again,

Gabriel.