Adding a drive

[Alan Dacey Sr.]

On Friday 02 April 2010 09:17:24 am Basil Chupin wrote:
> I am using Kubuntu Karmic.
> 
> If I was to add another HD to my system, how do I go about doing this
> especially formatting it and giving it a mount point for fstab (eg, /data)?
> 
> As far as I can see there is no partitioner in Kubuntu. (I had to format
> a flash memory stick yesterday and had to use another distro to do this,
> but can this be done in Kubuntu?)
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> BC

First, BACKUP anything you do not want to lose.  One mistake while formatting 
new drives could lead to a bad thing.  Then turn off your computer, pull out the 
power plug and install the drive.

After your drive is installed download gparted.  That is the partitioner you want to 
use.  First make a new partition table on the drive, highlight the unformatted 
partition and click the 'New' icon.  This is where you can split up your drive or 
keep it as one big one.  If you want to make partitions that windows can see 
download the ntfsprogs package.

To have your new partitions auto-mount you will have to edit the file /etc/fstab 
and add them manually.  Of course the folders have to exist so make them before 
you start this.  I like to have everything mount under my /home folder 
since I am the only one using my computer.  If you have multiple users this may 
not work for you.  Since the folder /etc is owned by root and not your user name 
you will have to edit the file as root.  To do this open up the terminal and type 
the following:
	kdesudo kate /etc/fstab
This will open up kate as root so give your password.  (we use kdesudo instead 
of sudo because it is a graphical program).  Then you can add the partition(s) 
to the folders of your choice.  The following is an example of what is on my system:

# /dev/sdc1 - Movies - 429Gb
UUID=8be978b0-1143-4b51-a90a-fa0254a1370a /home/alan/Movies		ext4	nouser,relatime,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
# /dev/sda3 - Backups - 278 Gb
UUID=035e3def-ec56-4cad-a0f6-1bff6d52acd4 /home/alan/Documents/Backups	ext3	nouser,relatime,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0
# /dev/sda2 - Windows back door - 100 GB
UUID=69B5EECB097BA772 /home/alan/Documents/Distros/BackDoor 		ntfs	nouser,relatime,auto,rw,users,quiet 0 0
# /dev/sdc5 - Test Distro 1 - 50 Gb
/dev/sdc5 /home/alan/Documents/Distros/d1			ext4	nouser,relatime,atime,auto,rw,dev,exec,suid 0 0

I suggest that you copy this and change the UUID and folders since the options 
work fine for me.  Notice after the folder name is the format type (ext3, ext4, ntfs) 
you do not want to mix them up since it probably won't mount if you do.
You can tell your Kubuntu what partition you are talking about using the UUID or 
the device info so in my case Movies could have been mounted using either 
"/dev/sdc1" or "UUID=8be9...." in the beginning of the line.  I have three hard drives 
so that is why there are devices /dev/sda, sdb, & sdc.  I expect you to have /dev/sda 
& /dev/sdb.

To find out your device name you can use two different methods from the command 
line.  I usually use both because I want to see everything. 
The first is simple, type the following:
	ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid
This will give you the UUID and the device name like this:
	lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 2010-03-29 14:42 8be978b0-1143-4b51-a90a-fa0254a1370a -> ../../sdc1

The second way is to use the blkid command
	sudo blkid
This will give you the device name, UUID and format type such as this
	/dev/sdc1: LABEL="Movies" UUID="8be978b0-1143-4b51-a90a-fa0254a1370a" TYPE="ext4" 

Hope this helps!


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Montgomery Scott
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