Does anyone know how to mount and format an additionl hardware other than the on the system is running on.Depends, for RH 7.3 and up which I am familar with, follow the steps below
Step 1. I assume you have installed the hard drive and your kernel detects it.
step 2. partation it using fdisk 'man fdisk' for more detail
Step 3. suppose you partationed /dev/hdx1, /dev/hdx2... for IDE drive and (x=a,b,c...).
scsi /dev/sdx1,sdx2 ....
Step 4. Format mkfs -b Y [/dev/hdxn | /dev/sdxn] (x=a,b,c and n=1,2,3)
Step 5. e2lable [/dev/hdxn | /dev/sdxn] /NAME (NAME = /usr, /opt/, /usr1 ...)
for more detail see man e2label
Step 6. add an entry in /etc/fstab
LABEL=/NAME /NAME [ext3 | ext2] defaults 1 2
Step 7. mount -a
Step 8. type at shell prompt 'df', you should see your newly added drive.
Alex Mesfin
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