[ Thanks to Joe Barr
for this link. ]
“My desktop machine has been cramped for space for at least a
year. I’ve had to shuffle games, data, applications and digital
images on and off the system as I needed them. There just wasn’t
enough available space on the two existing drives, and it was past
time to do something about it. That’s what I’m writing about this
week: adding a new hard drive to your existing Linux system.“I decided on a Western Digital Caviar IDE drive. Model WD1200JB
is rated at 120-gigabyte capacity, spins at 7200 RPMs and sports an
8-megabyte cache. I found a good price for it online as a bare
drive (meaning without any cables or hardware to facilitate
installation), and I ordered it. Total cost was $131.99, including
shipping and handling. Bless froogle.google.com.“I remember scraping my knuckles a couple of times when I did a
similar upgrade a few years ago. I was hopeful that this time it
would go a little easier. It did, by a considerable margin. Maybe
I’ve gotten better at reading the HowTo’s; this time, I followed
the LinuxPlanet tutorial on adding a new (empty) hard drive…”