LinuxPlanet: Tutorial: Adding Additional Hard Drives in Linux

“In reality, the procedure of adding of new hard drive in Linux
is not that hard and sometimes you can spend less time then you
would spend to do the same thing in Windows. To illustrate this,
I’ll start from the very begining to explain this procedure in
detail.

“First of all, I need to mention that before a users tries to
add any new hard disk, he should learn the basics of what
‘partitioning’ and ‘file systems’ are and what is the difference
between Primary, Extended, and logical partitions. You should know
how to physically add a new disk to the computer physically (which
is typically covered in the hard drive’s documentation). I’m going
to assume you know these basics, because the focus of this article
will be how to get Linux to behave with your new drive.

“I’m going to start from the theory of the process…”

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