Adding Hard disks

Hard disks could be added to a system as follows:

1. A Operating system with the new hard disk installed is rebooted.
2. Linux will auto detect the disk.
3. 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

1. Use cfdisk to partition the disk.
2. Use mke2fs to create a file system
3. Edit fstab to make mounting simpler.