Installing a new hard drive

[Eamonn Sullivan]

That's all I needed. Thanks much!

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 07:24:14 -0800, Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 15:14 +0000, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> > 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...
> 
> man cfdisk
> man fdisk   (prefer cfdisk for its interface)
> man mkfs
> 
> You must partition and then make file systems on the drive, then add it
> to the fstab for mounting.
> 
> man fstab
> man mount
> 
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