SUNScholar/Upgrading/Hardware/Add a New Disk
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These guidelines are very brief and require someone with Linux experience to execute correctly.
Step 1
Determine the kernel hardware label for the new disk.
After connecting the new disk to the server and rebooting, login to the server using a console and type;
sudo fdisk -l
This command will list all the disks attached and the kernel label used.
Step 2
Create a linux partition on the new disk.
Assuming that you identified the new disk as /dev/sdb, from step 1 above, then type the following to create a single linux partition on the new disk;
sudo -i
parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary
parted /dev/sdb print
Step 3
Make a linux filesystem on the new disk.
Step 2 above should have created a single primary linux partition on the disk.
Type the following to create an ext4 file system on the disk;
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
Step 4
Make a mount point on the linux file system for the new disk.
Step 5
Mount the new disk to the mount point on the linux file system.
Definitions
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfdisk
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parted
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mkfs
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab
