Partioning Disks In Linux

Linux and Unix-Like Linux
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Hi, group

Just wondering suppose you have linux already installed & now you get a new disk so that your computer has two disks. How do you go about partitioning/slicing the new disk in linux ? which utility do you use ?

Regards

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I'm using LVM, what's your OS ? Generally you can do "man fdisk" to get more clarity.

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Thanks

My OS is Red Hat Linux

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first you shoud use the $fdisk /dev/hdb
second use command $mke2fs -j /dev/hdb1
third use command mkdir /dirname
mount -t ext3 /dev/hdb1 /dirname

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Your disk may or may not be located at /dev/hdb. (My 2nd hard disk is at /dev/hdc. I believe this is determined by which IDE interface you plug it into.)

Here is a good tutorial explaining how to do this. I used this tutorial last week to add a second (new) hard drive to my Linux box at work.