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Physically install your hard drive. |
You will need to turn off your Linux system to do this, so you should notify your users of the expected down time. |
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Prepare the drive according to the manufacturer's guidelines. |
For a SCSI drive, this might involve low-level formatting of the drive from the SCSI controller's BIOS. |
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Create the hard drive's partition table using the fdisk or cfdisk programs. |
As you create partitions, you will add both Linux ext2 and swap partitions. |
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Initialize the new ext2 partitions with the mke2fs command.
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This command places filesystem information onto the partition so that you can store data there. The syntax of this command is mke2fs
<partition>; for example, mke2fs /dev/hdb1.
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Initialize the new swap partitions with the mkswap command.
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This command prepares the swap space for Linux's use. The syntax of this command is mkswap
<partition>; for example, mkswap /dev/hdb2.
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6.
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Edit /etc/fstab, adding new entries for the partitions.
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For example, to add an automounting floppy drive you would add the line /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2
noauto,owner 0 0 to the /etc/fstab file.
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7.
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Make the directories for each of the mount points you specified in /etc/fstab.
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To make a directory, use the command mkdir <directory name>.
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8.
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To gain immediate access to your new filesystems, mount them with the mount command.
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The syntax of this command is mount <partition>; for example, mount
/dev/hdb1.
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9.
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Enable the new swap partitions using swapon -a.
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The option -a enables all swap found in the /etc/fstab file.
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