topic Re: Adding Second HDD in Operating System - Linux

Adding Second HDD

Turishi Malhotra — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:08:59 GMT

Hi,
I had installed a additional hard drive on my Linux 7.2 server.when I try to access it says Unable to seek partition error.So plz let me the excat process how to Install a second HDD on working server.I have already 3 SCSI hdd installed,and this is fourth one which I want to install it.

Thanks
Turishi

Re: Adding Second HDD

yongye_1 — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:21:50 GMT

Hi Turishi,

Normally the 4th hdd will be assigned to /dev/sdd.
Issue fdisk /dev/sdd command and create the partitions you want. After that you maybe need to reboot the server to have the change taken effect. And then you should create file system on the new partition. Such as issue mkfs -t ext2 -j /dev/sdd1 for create the ext3 file system on the first partition.
And you could mount it for using.
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdd1 /any-diretory

Yongye

Re: Adding Second HDD

Turishi Malhotra — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 07:37:51 GMT

Hi Yonge,

I did same as u mentioned but after that only it gives partition seek error.
So plz let me know waht all I can check to make sure that is it configured in right way.

thanks
turishi.

Re: Adding Second HDD

Marco Di Ianni — Tue, 28 Sep 2004 10:20:14 GMT

try to use
# cfdisk /dev/sdxx

This is similar to fdisk but is a semi-graphical tool.
I prefer use this for manage partition tables!

Re: Adding Second HDD

Rick Garland — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:25:47 GMT

Use of the fdisk/cdisk utility is required to create the partitions and assign the type.

Once completed you can run the mke2fs utility on these new partitions to make the filesystem on the respective partition. If using ext3 use the -j option. Be sure to use the correct filesystem creation command based on the filesystems you are using.

Re: Adding Second HDD

Rick Garland — Thu, 30 Sep 2004 16:26:22 GMT

Re: Adding Second HDD

Johannes Krackowizer_1 — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 08:24:16 GMT

hi,

try fdisk /dev/sd
type "o" to create a new empty partition table.
create new partitions with "n".
set the id to 83 (Linux) with "t" or 82 (Linux Swap) or 8e (Linux LVM) or fd (Linux raid auto), ...
type "w" to write your selection.

Then you have to create the filesystem with (mkfs.ext2 /dev/sd, mkfs.ext3 ...,,mkfs.reiserfs ..., mkswap ..., ...)

now it's ready to mount the partition

Re: Adding Second HDD

xyko_1 — Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:30:12 GMT

Hi Turishi,

first of all it's important to determine your real configuration.

Please send us the output of dmesg, /proc/scsi/scsi, fstab.

Regards,
Xyko