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[otamendi]

Hi we just got a server with to 80 gb hard drives, one of them comes without format or partition we just want to do a normal format so we could use it with WHM to host more accounts as easy as doing it with one hard drive,

this is the result of fdisk -l in our system and we are using CentOS

root@host [~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 144 1052257+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 145 9729 76991512+ 83 Linux

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System


How can we do that? thanks a lot.

[RaviAgarwal]

Originally Posted by otamendi

Disk /dev/sdb: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System


How can we do that? thanks a lot.

You need to fdisk the /dev/sdb disk as

fdisk /dev/sdb

and the select options as per your requirements (EXT3, RAID etc)

MAN pages are your friends for FDISK.
http://man.he.net/man8/fdisk

[otamendi]

Originally Posted by RaviAgarwal

You need to fdisk the /dev/sdb disk as

fdisk /dev/sdb

and the select options as per your requirements (EXT3, RAID etc)

MAN pages are your friends for FDISK.
http://man.he.net/man8/fdisk

Thanks for helping, took a look at the website you post,

Thing is my requirement is that the disk could be used to create more accounts or give current accounts more space and i dont know wich options to choose.

The server is new how can i tell wich options to choose to do what i want? that's why am asking :$

[RaviAgarwal]

ohh ok, you need to simply partition the disk2 and format as same as your other partition on Disk1 has. As you need to use them as extra space, you can point your data to the partitions of disk2 as SoftLinks

[rutgerb]

Have a look at: http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html which explains to you the basics.

1. format the drive.
2. setup partitions.
3. mount the partitions.
4. if needed, point specific folders to folders on the newly mounted partitions.

using the URL above you should be able to grasp the basics of it. it wouldn't hurt if you had a VMWare machine locally with Linux in it just to try this out for yourself.