FC3 > HOW DO I INSTALL A NEW HARDDRIVE FOR STORAGE

[Antwan]

Hi all, I have bought a new hd (western digital wc 1600 with 160gb ide) and I want to use it for storage of big files (backups and movies mostly)
I need the disk to be fat32 and accesible like a optical drive (like the cd player icon and not mounted onto the filesystem) any help would be highly welcome.
here's my fstab file config (I havent installed the hd yet)

/*
# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r :removable_t,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_u:object_r :removable_t,managed 0 0


*/

PS : Sorry for the caps

[chili555]

You do it just like this, which I did successfully about 30 minutes ago!

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/storage/

Not too sure what you mean by not mounted in the filesystem. Please elaborate.

[LinuxHippy]

I think he means not having it automount in fstab...you would use the noauto command again like the cd mount and the filetype is vfat.

[Antwan]

I tried it but didnt work because I dont seem to have fdisk installed (no idea why) does anyone know where to get it from

[Antwan]

You do it just like this, which I did successfully about 30 minutes ago!

http://fedoranews.org/tchung/storage/

Not too sure what you mean by not mounted in the filesystem. Please elaborate.

Never mind, I just found out that fdisk was installed in /sbin I have no idea why, anyways it worked, my new hd is mounted (not fat, which kinda sucks). One last question, my hdd is 160 GB but when I check I see only 140 anyone know why? And thanks for the help