Add partitions and attaching in redhat 5.4 Under vmware

1. Add a hard disk to the vmwarevm. By default, the hard disk size is customized. When the virtual machine is enabled
Adding a hard disk does not work. You need to restart the disk or add it when it is shut down.

2. Add a hard disk. By default, the hard disk after sda is added is sdb. Then, use the fdisk-l command to view the current hard disk information. fdisk/dev/sdb enters sdb.
 
3. After Entering sdb, press the m key as prompted for help information. N indicates adding,
 
4. format the hard disk command mkfs-t ext3/dev/sdb1

 
5. You can use fdisk-l to view the attached hard disk.