Comments on: Add a second drive to your Ubuntu server http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/ A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 03:50:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mahmoodhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-1382092 mahmood Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:22:57 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-1382092 I want to add another physical storage (1TB) to /home which. Currently the /home is 1TB and I want to add another 1TB. Is it possible to do your procedure except that creating /data, mount the new formatted disk to /home? I want to add another physical storage (1TB) to /home which. Currently the /home is 1TB and I want to add another 1TB.
Is it possible to do your procedure except that creating /data, mount the new formatted disk to /home?

]]> By: Danhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-1368740 Dan Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:18:13 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-1368740 Isn't it necessary to create a partition first before formatting with mkfs? Isn’t it necessary to create a partition first before formatting with mkfs?

]]> By: Angelhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-1360532 Angel Sun, 21 Aug 2011 11:41:45 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-1360532 One thing that is not clear from this tutorial is why use /dev/sda, instead of creating one partition. My intent is to use the whole drive but is there any advantage or disadvantages over one vs the other one? One thing that is not clear from this tutorial is why use /dev/sda, instead of creating one partition. My intent is to use the whole drive but is there any advantage or disadvantages over one vs the other one?

]]> By: Honzahttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-1343428 Honza Tue, 24 May 2011 10:11:33 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-1343428 Jack, thanks for this tutorial! As mentioned above, it helped me fast in my first server set up. I would really take Rupert's note about UUID into consideration, whether to incorporate it into the tutorial itself. I guess it might save couple of server admins in the future.:) Jack, thanks for this tutorial! As mentioned above, it helped me fast in my first server set up. I would really take Rupert’s note about UUID into consideration, whether to incorporate it into the tutorial itself. I guess it might save couple of server admins in the future.:)

]]> By: pirateworkshttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-1294588 pirateworks Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:39:28 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-1294588 Rupert's comment is absolutely right. i had exact same problem trying to figure out why my Ubuntu 10 system wont continue to load, instead it just gives me message "Disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present. Continue to wait; or press S to skip or M for manual recovery." I ended up doing manual recovery. since linux is a new ground for me, its been a while before i figure out with the help of this page and of course Rupert. My system drive ended up /sdb instead of /sda before. so what i after doing a fdisk -l, is to edit fstab and modify the drive letters. then replaced the entries and used UUID. with lots of thanks to you guys. hope my experience will help others as well. Cheers!!! Rupert’s comment is absolutely right. i had exact same problem trying to figure out why my Ubuntu 10 system wont continue to load, instead it just gives me message “Disk drive for /home is not ready yet or not present. Continue to wait; or press S to skip or M for manual recovery.” I ended up doing manual recovery. since linux is a new ground for me, its been a while before i figure out with the help of this page and of course Rupert.
My system drive ended up /sdb instead of /sda before. so what i after doing a fdisk -l, is to edit fstab and modify the drive letters. then replaced the entries and used UUID.

with lots of thanks to you guys. hope my experience will help others as well.

Cheers!!!

]]> By: Bubbahttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-1248203 Bubba Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:00:30 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-1248203 You rock! This is by far the best instructions that I have come across so far. You really do make Linux easy for us. Thanks You rock! This is by far the best instructions that I have come across so far. You really do make Linux easy for us.

Thanks

]]> By: How to Add New Disk to Ubuntu Server | Kudosvenuehttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-986761 How to Add New Disk to Ubuntu Server | Kudosvenue Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:45:52 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-986761 [...] See http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/ [...] [...] See http://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/ [...]

]]> By: Juanhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-941672 Juan Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:11:22 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-941672 Out of the few tutorials I read and after spending many hours toying with parted and fdisk, your guide is the one that has helped me to sucessfully add, format and mount another drive to my Ubuntu Server 9.10 installation. Very simple to follow, requires NO prior knowledge or Linux experience (I just started 2-3 days ago). Will be adding this site to my favs. Thanks!!! Out of the few tutorials I read and after spending many hours toying with parted and fdisk, your guide is the one that has helped me to sucessfully add, format and mount another drive to my Ubuntu Server 9.10 installation. Very simple to follow, requires NO prior knowledge or Linux experience (I just started 2-3 days ago).
Will be adding this site to my favs. Thanks!!!

]]> By: Add a second drive to your Ubuntu server | pc-arashttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-902975 Add a second drive to your Ubuntu server | pc-aras Wed, 21 Oct 2009 05:52:52 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-902975 [...] :: ghacks Share and [...] [...] :: ghacks Share and [...]

]]> By: Ruperthttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-882545 Rupert Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:41:34 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-882545 I would STRONGLY advise against using /dev/sdb to automount the drive in /etc/fstab. It is MUCH safer to use UUID= to mount the drive (you can determine UUID using blkid in the Terminal). The reason being Ubuntu sometimes changes the drive order, particularly if you boot up with a USB drive attached, so what is normally /dev/sdb might randomly become /dev/sdc. This can cause some severe problems if you have any file processing scripts running when your machine boots up (as I have). I used to use /dev/sdb until my rsync script completely overwrote my backup drive after a reboot when /dev/sdc and /dev/sdb swapped places... If you use the UUID number instead of /dev/sdb, this is much safe, since the UUID is a unique number assigned to each individual hard drive and it doesn't change. Using UUID is now the recommended way to mount a drive using fstab. More information here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID I would STRONGLY advise against using /dev/sdb to automount the drive in /etc/fstab. It is MUCH safer to use UUID= to mount the drive (you can determine UUID using blkid in the Terminal). The reason being Ubuntu sometimes changes the drive order, particularly if you boot up with a USB drive attached, so what is normally /dev/sdb might randomly become /dev/sdc. This can cause some severe problems if you have any file processing scripts running when your machine boots up (as I have). I used to use /dev/sdb until my rsync script completely overwrote my backup drive after a reboot when /dev/sdc and /dev/sdb swapped places…

If you use the UUID number instead of /dev/sdb, this is much safe, since the UUID is a unique number assigned to each individual hard drive and it doesn’t change.

Using UUID is now the recommended way to mount a drive using fstab.

More information here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsingUUID

]]> By: Add a second drive to your Ubuntu server | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntuhttp://www.ghacks.net/2009/09/10/add-a-second-drive-to-your-ubuntu-server/comment-page-1/#comment-880874 Add a second drive to your Ubuntu server | Ubuntu-News - Your one stop for news about Ubuntu Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:56:18 +0000 http://www.ghacks.net/?p=16193#comment-880874 [...] You have your Ubuntu Server up and running (with the help of “Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04“) but you’re afraid you’ll run out of room on your drive. To solve this problem you have installed a new hard drive, but because this is a GUI-less server you do not have access to the user-friendly GUI tools that make this job easy. More here [...] [...] You have your Ubuntu Server up and running (with the help of “Installing Ubuntu Server 9.04“) but you’re afraid you’ll run out of room on your drive. To solve this problem you have installed a new hard drive, but because this is a GUI-less server you do not have access to the user-friendly GUI tools that make this job easy. More here [...]

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