Mounting a HDD..first time

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Posted by shippuuden, 07-14-2007, 10:03 PM
I read a few threads and it seems as simple as fdisking the drive and then mounting it, but im a little scared.. so if someone has a proper step by step guide to do this can they please help me.. at the moment i have a 40GB ( ide, i think ) hdd and a secondary 250GB IDE hdd, i also have servercp installed and i think im on fedora 6.. Now i dont want to just type fdisk dev/hdb incase that is my first 40gb hdd, i dont mind losing the extra data on it i just dont want to format the OS and stuff was im on an un-managed server and will cost me time / money for them to re-install it all.. is there a ssh command to list all the hdd's connected to the server and to tell me what size they are, and where they are on the server before i start formatting, fdisking and mounting them?
Posted by Orien, 07-14-2007, 10:29 PM
fdisk -l Run that and it'll tell you information about your disks.
Posted by shippuuden, 07-14-2007, 10:33 PM
Hmm ok i fdisked the drive and gave it a number and stuff. but i get this error when i try to mount. Im trying to mount it in "/home/ani/wwwroot/username/hdd2" Wich is the directory where my first HDD is, so, will this work? i just made a folder in there called hdd2, i asumed it will mount it in there so when i finished using my first hdd i can upload into hdd2 wich will be the 2nd hdd, is this correct?
Posted by AttackerNET, 07-14-2007, 11:19 PM
Hello, I will assume the new mounting point as "backup" 1. Copy any data you want to save to another drive. Don't proceed until you get this done. 2. Unmount /backup by entering "umount /backup" 3. Invoke fdisk.(fdisk /dev/hdd) 4. Delete the partitions. (d command in fdisk) 5. Create the partitions as you want. (n command, answer the prompts. Specify the size of the partition in megs with +sizeM) (Ex: +80000M = 80GB) 6. Write the new partition table out. (w) 7. Format the new partitions (mkfs.ext3) 8. Label the partitions with e2label. (e2label partition fslabel) 8. Edit /etc/fstab to mount them where you want them. Thanks,
Posted by shippuuden, 07-14-2007, 11:37 PM
Thanks sys admin i will give this a try. I didnt know i had to format the partition AFTER creating it and stuff. Also, i get an error when i hit W that sais the kernal is still using the old table untill the server reboots, so i will try reboot the server and do it again. Also, this new hdd is not going to be used for backup, it is just needed for more space ( its bassicaly a file server that i run ). I only have 1 person on this server, and he is on the 40GB hdd, and almost used it all up, i want him to be able to use this HDD as well... So, for example if his acount was in "home/username/www/FILES/" and if i wanted the new hdd to mount there would i be able to or does it need to be in a complete different place?
Posted by Jcink, 07-14-2007, 11:45 PM
You can do that, yes. You can mount the disk to that folder. Backup was just an example.
Posted by shippuuden, 07-14-2007, 11:51 PM
Ok cool, Will atempt soon. On a side note, i typed "reboot" into ssh and it sais it was gonna reboot the server, but the server simply died. So ive emailed support lol.
Posted by hbhb, 07-15-2007, 12:43 AM
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /drive2 Does it matter if I don't label the drive?
Posted by shippuuden, 07-15-2007, 09:54 AM
YAY!!! its done and it works!... to mount it i didnt edit the etc/fstab i just typed "mount /dev/hdb1 /home/user/www/hdd2" and it simply worked. This was actually easier to do than i though, but not without the help of people on this forum, thanks to every one that helped!.