Jerry Mellon wrote: > Hi, > The Asus that I have is G75V series. It has 2 hdd bays onboard. The > 500mv is the drive that is current installed and Debian 10.7 is > installed. I have purchased another 2T Segate drive that will go into > the empty bay. > > I don't want to do anything fancy, just install and update fstat. The > question is what do I do in fstat to set it up. Currently the fstab file > reads as follows. > > Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type > /dev/sda1 * 2048 951703551 951701504 453.8G 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 951705598 976771071 25065474 12G 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 951705600 976771071 25065472 12G 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > > > Do I set the new drive as /dev/sda6 , 7 , 8 ???? and would it be a > single partition? >
No, this drive will be recognized, after you plug it in, as /dev/sdb, and will have whatever partitions you create on it. To see what it gets called by the operating system: cat /proc/partitions To create a new partition sudo fdisk /dev/sdb and follow the prompts to write a partition table and create a partition. The defaults will go to a single giant partition, sdb1. To create a filesystem on sdb1: sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 To mount the partition temporarily: sudo mkdir /mnt/tmp sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/tmp to unmount it: sudo umount /dev/sdb1 To make it a normal part of your system, create a directory where you want it to be -- /data ? /storage ? /backup ? and then edit /etc/fstab. -dsr-
