Adding a drive

[Jonas Norlander]

2010/4/2 Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>:
> 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
>

You can install partitionmanager which is a KDE program or gparted
which is a Gnome program. Both let you manipulate partition and format
them.

/ Jonas