I added a new disk using PVE (Proxmox) as a secondary IDE drive. Primary is 30GB. Running Ubuntu 14.04LTS (I know I should upgrade to 16, but I’m lazy)
\nSecondary drive is 400GB and I marked it NO Backup.
\nAdding a secondary HDD to linux is pretty easy.<\/p>\n
List all of the drives<\/strong> In my case it showed that \/dev\/sdb didn’t have a partition table. That fact, added to the other fact I know I was using sda already, made my choice pretty easy. Don’t take my word for it and actually fact-check against your own equipment!<\/p>\n Create partition on the drive<\/strong> “N” for new, “P” for primary partition, “1” for partition number, “w” to write table to disk and exit. Most of these are the defaults anyway, so hitting “enter” a bunch of times works.<\/p>\n Create the filesystem<\/strong> Display the UUID of the new partition\/drive<\/strong> Add to FSTAB<\/strong> Make directory and Mount the drive<\/strong> Profit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I added a new disk using PVE (Proxmox) as a secondary IDE drive. Primary is 30GB. Running Ubuntu 14.04LTS (I know I should upgrade to 16, but I’m lazy) Secondary drive is 400GB and I marked it NO Backup. Adding a secondary HDD to linux is pretty easy. List all of the drives fdisk -l … Continue reading Add Second Drive to Linux<\/span>
\nfdisk -l<\/code><\/p>\n
\nfdisk \/dev\/sdb<\/code>
\nn<\/code>
\np<\/code>
\n1<\/code>
\nEnter<\/code>
\nw<\/code><\/p>\n
\nmkfs.ext4 \/dev\/sdb1<\/code>
\nEnter a bunch of times<\/p>\n
\nblkid \/dev\/sdb1<\/code>
\nShould get something back like \/dev\/sdb1: UUID=”98d83dk-e4c3-38cd89-3830c0909903″ TYPE=”ext4″<\/p>\n
\n*note* Adam will laugh at my use of NANO, but I’m a creature of habit.
\nnano \/etc\/fstab<\/code>
\nAdd the UUID to the bottom:
\n#\/dev\/sdb1 \/mnt\/sdb ext4 defaults 0 0<\/code>
\nUUID=98d83dk-e4c3-38cd89-3830c0909903 \/mnt\/sdb ext4 defaults 0 0<\/code><\/p>\n
\nmkdir \/mnt\/sdb<\/code>
\nmount -a<\/code><\/p>\n