Installing a new hard drive

[Eamonn Sullivan]

This should be simple, but in all my years of using Linux I've never
done it. Now that I've mastered rsync for backing up the PCs in my
house, I decided to add a new SATA 160GB drive to the Ubuntu system to
store my backups. I've done that, and the drive is visible in the
device manager, but how do I format it (ext3) and attach it to the
file system? Was thinking of putting it in /home/backup or /backup.
Can someone give me a quick pointer to the right commands? 'apropos
disk' and 'apropos format' return a somewhat overwhelming number of
entries...