Re: Adding an additional HDD

From: Don Campbell (don_at_nulladdress.org)
Date: 05/20/04 

Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:37:39 -0700

wesley wrote:
[snip]
>
> If you are simply adding more storage, install the drive and make sure the
> device is enabled in your BIOS. Then make sure it has an appropriate fstab
> entry (hdc, hdd, etc.). Give it a mount point and you are basically off to
> the races.

Not quite yet. You need to set up the partition/partitions you want
with something like fdisk and then you need to make the appropriate
file system with something like mkfs.

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