Adding Hard disks
Hard disks could be added to a system as follows:
- A Operating system with the new hard disk installed is rebooted.
- Linux will auto detect the disk.
- Use the'dmesg' command to search out the device which is being used through the disk.
For IDE machines
primary master =>/dev/hda
primary slave =>/dev/hdb
secondary master=>/dev/hdc
secondary slave =>/dev/hdd
- Use cfdisk to partition the disk.
- Use mke2fs to create a file system
- Edit fstab to make mounting simpler.