====== Add New Disk in Linux ====== ===== Check Disk is installed ===== fdisk -l|grep Disk ===== Partition Disk ===== Assuming new disk is ''sdc'' fdisk /dev/sdc Commands p - to print the partition table n - to create new w - to write ===== Make file system ===== Assume you created a single partition on sdc1 mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 ===== Reserve 1% for root ===== tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdc1 ===== Create file system ===== Create Mount directory mkdir /home1 ===== Get Disk UUID ===== blkid|grep /dev/sdc1 ===== Make entry in fstab to automount ===== Add line to /etc/fstab: # New 2 TB Hard Disk UUID=d1bff2fd-537b-40fb-8981-cb59bd8e1221 /home1 ext4 defaults 0 2 Mount with mount -a Check with df -Ph Test with dd if=/dev/urandom of=/home1/sample.txt bs=1G count=1