Help adding second hard drive

[michael thomas]

Hi group. Would be real grateful for some advice from you more experienced
linux users.

The situation is that I have Redhat installed on its own hard drive, but the
hard drive is small and I have run out of space. I want to increase this
space by adding a new hard drive. The pc has a second hard drive with
Windows 98 on it. What I want to do is to either use part of the windows 98
hard drive for extra space or buy a new drive and use that. But I don't want
to mess with my existing linux installation. So basically, I want to format
the new drive or part of the Windows 98 drive and be able to access it from
the existing Linux hard drive. Is that possible?

Thanks everyone

Mike

[Graham Wilson]

michael thomas wrote:
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I want to format the new drive or part of the Windows 98 drive and be able to

access it fromthe existing Linux hard drive. Is that possible?

> Thanks everyone

> Mike

Yes. You can do either. With a new drive, all you have to do is partition
it and initialize the partitions. Then you mount the partitions onto your
filesystem.

The best way to partition the drive is to use cfdisk (although fdisk will
do it too, but it's a little less user-friendly -- that's the Linux fdisk, not
the windog version). Look at the man pages to find out how to use mount; there
are a few simple rules, depending on the name of your new drive (hdb, etc) and
where you want to mount it. Once the new partitions are mounted, no one will
know there are two disks.

The simplest method is to use a new drive, but if you have enough room on
the one with the other os on it, you can rob some space by dividing up the disk
into more partitions -- you will probably lose all the data though, unless you
know what you are doing.

Good luck. G.

[michael thomas]

Thanks Graham, appreciate the help

M

[Keith]

See the HD Upgrade How-to:

http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html

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