Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 - INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual page 113

Chapter 5. Managing Storage
5.9.6.1. Adding Storage
The process of adding storage to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system is relatively straightforward. Here
are the steps that are specific to Red Hat Enterprise Linux:
Partitioning
•
Formatting the partition(s)
•
Updating
• /etc/fstab
The following sections explore each step in more detail.
5.9.6.1.1. Partitioning
Once the disk drive has been installed, it is time to create one or more partitions to make the space
available to Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
There is more than one way of doing this:
Using the command-line
•
Using , another command-line utility program
• parted
Although the tools may be different, the basic steps are the same. In the following example, the
commands necessary to perform these steps using
1. Select the new disk drive (the drive's name can be identified by following the device naming
conventions outlined in Section 5.9.1 Device Naming Conventions). Using
by including the device name when you start
fdisk /dev/hda
2. View the disk drive's partition table, to ensure that the disk drive to be partitioned is, in fact, the
correct one. In our example,
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1244 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda2
/dev/hda3
/dev/hda4
3. Delete any unwanted partitions that may already be present on the new disk drive. This is done
using the command in
d
Command (m for help): d
Partition number (1-4): 1
The process would be repeated for all unneeded partitions present on the disk drive.
4. Create the new partition(s), being sure to specify the desired size and file system type. Using
, this is a two-step process — first, creating the partition (using the
fdisk
Command (m for help): n
Command action
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p primary partition (1-4)
p
utility program
fdisk
fdisk
Start
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:
fdisk
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fdisk
:
fdisk
displays the partition table by using the
End Blocks Id
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fdisk
command:
p
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command):
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, this is done