Adding a new drive

[Dave Germiquet]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Rajinder Yadav<devguy-DaQTI0RpDDMAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
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> I finally got around to setting up a dedicated CentOS server on my other PC. I added a new unformulated drive to the box, I am wondering how I can format and mount it? I believe it's on /dev/hda...so I assume I just need to run fdisk and create a primary partition on it.
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> Will fdisk also format the drive for me?
>

Hi Rajinder,

No you will have to format the drive after creating the partition
using fdisk. You can format it with a different variety of file
systems such as ext2,ext3,reiserfs using these commands:

mke2fs /dev/hdaX for ext2 (not suggested unless its a /boot partition)

mke2fs -j /dev/hdaX for ext3 ( I prefer this one, as its more stable i
find, im unsure if ext4 is as stable)

mkreiserfs /dev/hdaX  (Some people prefer this, however I found it
lacking in stability and have lost data so i've lost faith in this)

Where X is the partition of the drive.

To mount an ntfs share you would do the following:

mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/xxxx /mountpoint

where /mountpoint is a directory made, I usually prefer /media/path as
its an external media.



Dave Germiqiuet
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