Adding a second hard drive.

wavemaker · #1 13th March 2008, 11:43 PM

Gooday all. As the title suggests I want to add a second hard drive for me to play with. I have looked for tutorials and have not found one that applies to F8. If you know of a good, easy to follow one, could you point me in the right direction. Or conversely give me a few tips on partitioning/formatting the new drive.
I have Fedora 8 and the new 250g hard drive is installed as a slave drive and is recognized at boot up. F* is the only thing on my master drive, ie no Windows.
Thanks in advance. Regards, James.

leigh123linux · #2 13th March 2008, 11:48 PM

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Code:

su -
fdisk -l

wavemaker · #3 14th March 2008, 12:04 AM

This is the response.
[james@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x29c829c7

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 14593 117017460 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 33.8 GB, 33820286976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-0: 117.7 GB, 117708947456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14310 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[root@localhost ~]#
Is that as it should be. Thanks.

leigh123linux · #4 14th March 2008, 12:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wavemaker

This is the response.
[james@localhost ~]$ su -
Password:
[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x29c829c7

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 14593 117017460 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 33.8 GB, 33820286976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/sdb doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-0: 117.7 GB, 117708947456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14310 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
[root@localhost ~]#
Is that as it should be. Thanks.

It has been detected !

use gparted to format it

Code:

su
yum install gparted
gparted

wavemaker · #5 14th March 2008, 12:18 AM

Many thanks for that. James.

wavemaker · #6 14th March 2008, 03:14 AM

I just had time to look at that again and it says 33.8gb. it's a 250gb hard drive, I don't get it. Is some of the capacity hidden?

Bslagowski · #7 14th March 2008, 04:08 AM

What is this, another drive?

Code:

Disk /dev/dm-0: 117.7 GB, 117708947456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14310 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

What drives do you think should be seen? Obviously you have a 120 GB drive. What else is attached (besides the 250 gig drive)? Also, what is the model of the new HDD you're trying to get working?