Installing a new hard drive

[Łukasz Nowak]

Hello,

Dnia 18-12-2004, sob o godzinie 15:14 +0000, Eamonn Sullivan napisał(a):
> 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...

Try qtparted, it's in universe.

Best regards,
Lukasz Nowak