Linux OS Add new Hard drive method _unix Linux

#fdisk/dev/sdb

Enter Fdisk mode:

Command (M for help):p//View new hard disk partitions

Command (M for help): N//Create a new partition


Command Action

e extended//input E to create an extended partition

P primary partition (1-4)//input p for creating primary partitions, here we select P


Partion Number (1-4): 1//First extended partition, up to 4 primary partitions per your requirement

First Cylinder (1-1014,default 1): 1//number of disk blocks from the beginning of the primary partition

Last Cylindet or +siza or +sizem or +sizek: +1024MB//Can be a number in megabytes or


The number of disk blocks, and the input +1024MB indicates a partition size of 1G.


Command (M for help): W

The partition table has been altered!


Calling IOCTL () to re-read partition table.

Syncing disks.


#mkfs-T Ext3-c/dev/sdb1//If there are multiple partitions, the partition is modified to SDB2 so


#mkdir www//Create/www directory, we will link the new partition to www

#mount/dev/sdb1/www///DEV/SDB1 mount to/www

# DF//With df command to view

FileSystem 1k-blocks Used Available use% mounted on

/dev/sda2 3771316 1388956 2190788 39%/

/DEV/SDA1 101089 9463 86407 10%/boot

None 62988 0 62988 0%/dev/shm

/DEV/SDB1 485906 8239 452580 2%/www/

See, this is just the new mount partition.


#vi/etc/fstab

/dev/sdb1/www ext3 Defaults 1 2