InstallingANewHardDrive in Ubuntu
Introduction While it's not every day that you need to add a new hard drive to your computer, the task does not have to be complicated. Use this guide to help you install a new hard drive with an existing Ubuntu system, and partition it for use. Before beginning, you need to consider for what you will be using the hard drive. Will the drive be used only with Ubuntu? Will the drive need to be accessible from both Ubuntu and Windows? How do you want to divide the free space? As a single partition, or as several? This guide goes over procedures for a single partition drive install only. Multiple partition drive installations are not very hard, and you may very well figure it out by using this guide; however, make sure you add an entry in /etc/fstab for each partition, not just the drive. A Note about File Systems: Drives that are going to be used only under Ubuntu should be formatted using the ext3/ext4 file system (depending on which version of Ubuntu you use and whethe