add another hard disk on Fedora Linux

[Robin Laing]

Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> weetat writes:
> 
>> Hi all ,
>>
>>     I have the SCSI hard disk which have disk space is full .
>>     I need to add new hard disk to the hard disk.
>>     Any how-to or manual documentation in net that i can read ?
> 
> 
> You can read fdisk's man page.
> 
> Presumably, your existing drive is /dev/sda.
> 
> After you attach your second drive, it should be detected as /dev/sdb.
> 
> Then, use fdisk to create partitions on /dev/sdb, mkfs to format them 
> (presumably as ext3), figure out where you want to mount them, add them 
> to /etc/fstab, and you're good to go.
> 

You many also want to read about Logical Volume Management as a way to 
add drives and combine them as one logical drive.  I am new to this as 
well but if you have growing HD needs, this looks great.