Adding a second hard drive in Ubuntu

Posted by andrew on January 12, 2012 in Operating Systems, Ubuntu | 0 comments

Adding drives in Ubuntu is fairly straightforward. When you install them, Ubuntu assigns them an sdX identifier, where X is a,b,c, etc. depending on how many drives you have installed. These instructions work with whatever number harddrive you’re installing, just change the b to whatever letter Ubuntu has assigned your new drive.

Steps:

1. Find out what your new drive is assigned. You’ll see a drive with no details. That should be your new drive.
   sudo fdisk -l
2. Start the formatting.
   sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
   1. Press u & enter
   2. Press n & enter
   3. Press p & enter
   4. Press 1 & enter
   5. Press enter
   6. Press enter again
   7. Press w & enter
3. Format the drive. It will take some time especially with large drives.
   sudo mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1
4. Create a mount point.
   sudo mkdir /path/to/newdrive
5. Put your new drive in /etc/fstab so that it will mount automatically.
   /dev/sdb1 /path/to/newdrive ext3 defaults 0 2

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