topic Re: partition new hd in Operating System - Linux

partition new hd

Tonatiuh — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:31:58 GMT

Red Hat Enterprise linux 3.0

How to see and partition fdisk a new HD recently added to my system?

Re: partition new hd

Gopi Sekar — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:58:40 GMT

depending on the type of drive.

if it is scsi, device name should be /dev/sdb or /dev/sdc or /dev/sdd. if it is smart array and separate logical drive is created then it should be /dev/cciss/c0d1

just do 'fdisk -l' it should give list of drives available for configure. your new drive should be listed with empty partition list with the drive name (/dev/sdb etc). to partition it run 'fdisk '. it should drop you in command line prompt where you can partition.

or if you are not comfortable in command line, there are good GUI utilities available for this(partition magic, qparted etc).

remember you may have to reboot your system for the new hard disk to get detected.

Hope this helps,
Gopi

Re: partition new hd

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 23:20:49 GMT

after the fdisk -l

You make a full system backup to cover you from making a mistake.

then

fdisk /dev/hdb

change hdb to whatever is displayed on the previous command.

There is a simple menu system that will let you carve up the disk into volumes.

Then you have to run mkfs to create a fileystem and modify /etc/fstab to make sure it gets mounted at boot time.

SEP