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Hello everyone,
I need some help adding a second hard drive to my linux machine. I have a main IDE HD currently installed with RH7.0 on it. I added a second SCSI HD and now I want to partition and use it. The red hat software already found the drive, but when I go into any of the partition utils the drive does not show up. It also seem that there is not much info about adding a new hard drive online anywhere. What am I not doing, I'm still pretty new to linux so maybe I need tons of help and am just missing the simple stuff.
Thanks in Advance.
Justin Fisk
Partition the disk however you like then run mkfs on all of the partitions. i.e. sda0, sda1... If one is to be a swap partition then run mkeswap (I think). Add the partitions that you want mounted in your fstab file and then reboot. Done...
A while back, in this forum, I described how to copy and replace existing directories as mount points on seperate partitions. Here are two that I found with a quick search:
Distribution: Redhat v8.0 (soon to be Fedora? or maybe I will just go back to Slackware)
Posts: 857
Rep:
Your new drive will be /dev/sdb I think.
'fdisk /dev/sdb' to partition, then 'mkfs /dev/sdb1' to format then create a mount point and mount. You can edit /etc/fstab to have it automounted at boot time.
Hi, Iam having problem in Redhat 9.0. I have connected a primary slave to the master. The bios detected the hard disk even while the syustem was booting the it had detected he hdb . But i could not mount it or view using fdisk -L option.
I checked in the /proc/ide . There the hdb was there but what i could find was in the file drivers it was mentioned as none . Is this could be the problem??????
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