New harddisk.
Friday, 3. February 2006, 08:58:28
Added a new harddisk to my ubuntu installation last night. Actually the harddisk was NTFS and belonged to windows. Without the ability to write to NTFS partitions in Linux I had to move it over.
After a lot of burning to clear the disk of data I did the following to get it under ubuntu's control.
d (Delete the existing windows partition.)
n (Create a new primary partition, for the entire disk.)
w (Write table to disk and exit.)
To format the disk I used the following command:
When this completed all I needed to do was to mount the new drive somewhere so I added the following line to /etc/fstab:
To actually get the disk mounted according to fstab I just typed:
So now I have 200 extra gigabytes of free space to fill up, I think Azureus will overheat tonight.
After a lot of burning to clear the disk of data I did the following to get it under ubuntu's control.
sudo fdisk /dev/hdb
d (Delete the existing windows partition.)
n (Create a new primary partition, for the entire disk.)
w (Write table to disk and exit.)
To format the disk I used the following command:
sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/hdb1
When this completed all I needed to do was to mount the new drive somewhere so I added the following line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb1 /home/rjs ext3 defaults 1 1
To actually get the disk mounted according to fstab I just typed:
sudo mount -a
So now I have 200 extra gigabytes of free space to fill up, I think Azureus will overheat tonight.
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