Adding a new drive

[Dave Germiquet]

Just a point taken someone may pipe up, I haven't used NTFS On linux
that much and last time I heard it wasn't widely done for write
purposes..Maybe someone can shed more insight if its more stable, and
can use it with write/read on linux systems.

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Dave Germiquet<davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Rajinder Yadav<devguy-DaQTI0RpDDMAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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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