29. Adding a New Disk Drive to a CentOS 8 System
One of the first problems encountered by users and system administrators these days is that systems tend to run out of disk space to store data. Fortunately disk space is now one of the cheapest IT commodities. In the next two chapters we will look at the steps necessary to configure CentOS 8 to use the space provided via the installation of a new physical or virtual disk drive.
29.1 Mounted File Systems or Logical Volumes
There are two ways to configure a new disk drive on a CentOS 8 system. One very simple method is to create one or more Linux partitions on the new drive, create Linux file systems on those partitions and then mount them at specific mount points so that they can be accessed. ...
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