Proper way to add a new disk in Ubuntu

[John DeCarlo]

Hello,

I just added a brand new hard drive to my Ubuntu system.  OK.

Went into fdisk and created a partition for the whole drive.  A few
false starts when I forgot to say "sudo" first.  (Sort of like Simon
Says.)

I now had an hdb1 on my system, but no /dev/hdb1 entry.   mkfs
complained and wouldn't do anything.  I found that parted could format
a partition, and it did an admirable job, although it only had ext2
support that I could find (definitely not ext3).

Of course, still no /dev/hdb1.  So I couldn't mount it, either.

I couldn't think of anything else to try, so I rebooted (boo, hiss).  

Of course this fixed everything and there was a /dev/hdb1 again.

Any recommendations on what I *should* have done?  Should I have
restarted hal or something?

Thanks.  


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John DeCarlo, My Views Are My Own