Sunday, June 10, 2012

How to connect external USB disk to Linux server:



Before connect USB Disk
 1.Open /var/log/messages file
     tail -f /var/log/messages
 2.Connect disk.
 3.Find new device name (example /dev/sda ) in messages file.

After you know name of the disk (example /dev/sda)
   1. fdisk -l (list partitions)
   2. d - delete partition
   3. n - add new partition
   4. p - primary

Make file system
   1. mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda
   2. vi /etc/fstab
   3. add mount point to /etc/fstab (example /dev/sda       /d01         ext3    defaults        1 1)
   4. save /etc/fstab
   5. mount -a

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