Add new hard disk to your Linux machine

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If you want to add more storage to your machine by adding a new hard drive,and you have already a linux system installed in the first hard drive,  then just follow this tutorial.

Please  these  steps.

1-shutdown your computer and   turn off  the  power  switch

2-Check  the jumper pins on the  back of  your hdd

3-insert  your  disk  in the  metal  drive  and  attach it

4-connect  the  power  cable  to  your  new  disk

5-plug  the  IDE  cable  into back of  your  disk

6  reboot  your  machine

en check  if  new  disk  is  add  with

#fdisk  -l

you  will  see  some  thing  like  /dev/hdb  disk  non partioned .

please  foloow  how  you can creat partion on this  new  disk

[root]# fdisk /dev/hdb

Command (m for help): m (Enter the letter “m” to get list of commands)
Command action
a toggle a bootable flag
b edit bsd disklabel
c toggle the dos compatibility flag
d delete a partition
l list known partition types
m print this menu
n add a new partition
o create a new empty DOS partition table
p print the partition table
q quit without saving changes
s create a new empty Sun disklabel
t change a partition’s system id
u change display/entry units
v verify the partition table
w write table to disk and exit
x extra functionality (experts only)

Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
e
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-2654, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-2654, default 2654):
Using default value 2654

Command (m for help): p

Disk /dev/hdb: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 2654 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 1 2654 20064208+ 5 Extended

Command (m for help): w (Write and save partition table)

[root]# mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hdb1

mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
2508352 inodes, 5016052 blocks
250802 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
154 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16288 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 34 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

[root]# mkdir /unixbackup

[root]# mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /unixbackup

The  new  disk  partition should  be  detected  every  boot . from there is  need  to add  this  line  to /etc/fstab

/dev/hdb1 /unixbackup  ext3 defaults 1 2

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