2nd Hard drive

Hello,

A simple question: I need to add a second hard drive to my linux box and i can't find out how to mount it and format as ext3fs.

Do i mount first ( as raw ? ) and then format? How do i format the disk?

Thank you,

First you partition it using fdisk, then format it with mke2fs (for EXT3 use the -j switch on mke2fs), then you can add it to your /etc/fstab and mount it.

If you want a nice graphical interface you can use Webmin's partition manager and disk and network file systems modules. You can get Webmin from
http://www.webmin.com

Webmin's partition manager is under hardware/partition manager

The file system module is System/Disk and Network Filesystems

Its a good idea to use Wbmin - i actually already use it for different purposes. How does Linux see second hard drive? /dev/hdb?

'B. Joshua Rosen' < This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it > wrote in message

I think the drives are assigned device numbers based on the order in which the BIOS finds them which is dependent on the IDE bus, which PCI slot and which PCI bus the controller is plugged into and the master/slave status of the drive. If you only have the two onboard IDE buses then your drives will be /dev/hda and /dev/hdb on IDE0 and /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd on IDE1. An easy way to find the drive names is to use hdparm. Just do an hdparm /dev/hdb, hdparm /dev/hdc ... until you find the drive number.

Look into /proc/ide/