Introduction

Today's systems

Disk geometry

Disk partitions

File system
 

Practical Approach

Hardware setup

Partitions

Mount

Automate mounts

        UNIX System Administration

Chapter 9: Adding a Disk

by Ying Zhao, Andrej Cedilnik 
  June 10, 1999 

Make partitions (on hard drive) 

  • Run 

    • fdisk /dev/???
    (where ??? is device name) 
  • Make new partitions or change the old ones 
  • Set filesystem type 
  • Format partitions 
  • Run 

    • fsck /dev/???
    to check partition