Problem
The following document will outline the process for mounting a new hard drive on a Linux server. It is assumed that we will be using a disk with standard partitioning. We will be using fdisk in order to get the list of drives and mount to mount the disk.
tl;dr
fdisk -l
...output suppressed Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225200 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 488279610 83 Linux
mkdir /newdrive mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /newdrive
Solution
Let's assume that the new drive is /dev/sdb and it has one big standard partition on it. We want to mount that partition to /newdrive. First, let's display our partitioning scheme:
fdisk -l
...output suppressed Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225200 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks ID System /dev/sdb1 * 1 13 488279610 83 Linux
Now, let's make a new directory for the new drive:
mkdir /newdrive
Finally, we need to mount the partition to that newly created directory.
mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /newdrive
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