Difference between revisions of "Installing New Harddisk in Ubuntu"

Revision as of 17:55, 24 April 2015

>> return to Accessing server infra

For installing the new SATA3 2TB hard disk on my Ubuntu 12.04 workstation, I basically took all info from the following page:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/488213/how-to-add-a-second-hard-drive-to-an-already-installed-xubuntu-14-04

The install steps were as follows:

1. plug the disk in
2. (install +) start GParted
3. partitioning and adding the disk
   • select the new disk (top right)
   • created a msdos partition table (under menu entry "Device")
   • created a new primary partition with ext4 file system
   • execute the settings by clicking on the checkmark button
   • checked with sudo fdsik -l if there is a new disk

     => the disk was there as /dev/sdb

   • created a new folder /media/data to mount the disk there later on
   • change the folder permissions for /media/data so that everybody can read and write(!) with chmod 777 -R
   • it now possible to mount the disk using sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /media/data (However, I haven't tested it, and instead mounted and unmounted the disk via a mouse on the new desktop icon)
4. make sure we have the new disk available on startup:
   • check what is the UUID using sudo blkid
   • perhaps make a copy of it first: sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab_copy_24abril2015
   • edit fstab sudo nano fstab.

     so in my case I added the line: #UUID=8bd20968-2af2-4bf4-a898-e692f391134c /media/data ext4 defaults 0 2

   • now reboot or: mount the new disk with sudo mount /media/data (=> its a bit weird, but this command is without defining the place where to mount is, so I guess the system reads this info from the fstab entry)