Adding a new drive

[Rajinder Yadav]

Hi David,

thanks that was very helpful, got setup very quickly.

Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav


--- On Sun, 6/14/09, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> From: Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Adding a new drive
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Received: Sunday, June 14, 2009, 11:04 PM
> 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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