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