mount a new disk to a specified directory or partition in Linux

The device file name for the new disk is/dev/vdb size 100GB.

#fdisk-L View the new disk

1. Partition the new disk

#fdisk/dev/vdb

Prompt operation P print n new d Delete W operation effective Q exit

After Operation W

#partprobe forcing the kernel to re-locate the partition table (update partition table)

Here we add a partition/dev/vdb1 size of 40GB

2, partition format

#mkfs-T EXT4/DEV/VDB1 format to EXT4 format

3. Temporarily mount the new drive in a directory

#cd/mnt/

#mkdir Home

#mount/dev/vdb1/mnt/home Mount to/mnt/home

#df-H View

#cp-a/home/*/mnt/home/copy the things under the home to the mounted directory, backup

#rm-rf/home/* to erase everything under the home.

#umount/DEV/VDB1 unmount the hard drive

#df-H View

4. Set the boot mount

#vi/etc/fstab

Add a line at the end

/dev/vdb1/home EXT4 Defaults 1 2

Save exit

#df-H to see if/home is mounted

#mount-A to mount a/etc/fstab in a non-mounted partition

#df-H View

Filesystem Size used Avail use% mounted on
Label=cec-rootfs 16G 1.9G 13G 13%/
Tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0%/dev/shm
/DEV/VDA1 194M 28M 157M 15%/boot
/DEV/VDB1 40G 176M 38G 1%/Home

Successful Mount found

mount a new disk to a specified directory or partition in Linux