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With all of the hub-bub about Linux in clusters, Linux on supercomputers, and the like, sometimes it's nice to reflect on the basics a bit. For instance, what if you just wanted to do something more mundane, like add a hard drive to your Linux PC? Alexand

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Adding Additional Hard Drives in Linux

"How can I add one more hard disk?", "What should I do if my collegue brings a new hard disk and I have to copy my files there?", "When I was using Windows, one could see the new disk immediately and Linux is too complex!" These are some of the common questions and concerns of new Linux users, who are facing the problem of adding of a new hard drive. Some of them are so accustomed to Windows that they can not think any other way, so they come up with such statements as "I have used fdisk and format programs, but there are no such ones in Linux!"
In reality, the procedure of adding of new hard drive in Linux is not that hard and sometimes you can spend less time then you would spend to do the same thing in Windows. To illustrate this, I'll start from the very begining to explain this procedure in detail.

First of all, I need to mention that before a users tries to add any new hard disk, he should learn the basics of what "partitioning" and "file systems" are and what is the difference between Primary, Extended, and logical partitions. You should know how to add a new disk to the computer physically (which is typically covered in the hard drive's documentation). I'm going to assume you know these basics, because the focus of this article will be how to get Linux to behave with your new drive.

I'm going to start from the theory of the process.
There's not much sense in diggging into the terminology and principles of adding of a new devices in UNIX systems--there are too many different UNIX versions to try that approach. We'll just go-over Linux-specific issues.


 

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