Sams Teach Yourself Unix System Administration in 24 Hours

Hour 10 Adding Disks to Your System

The last hour explored the fsck command and how it can be used to diagnose and fix problems with hard disks. This hour will address the other half of the disk issue—how to add new disks, format them, and hook them up to your Unix system. It’s a set of commands you won’t need too often, I expect, but when you are ready, this shows the sequence needed.

With personal computer systems, the steps involved in adding and accessing a new disk tend to be hidden, but with Unix, a new disk needs to be formatted, partitioned, checked, then mounted somewhere in the filesystem.

Indeed, PC and Macintosh systems have a very ...