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Adding a disk

Adding a disk - Linux Tutorial

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Adding a disk

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- [Instructor] Adding an additional disk to your system is a great way of ensuring you have enough storage space. Because you can relocate things like file-shares and home folders to another disk, knowing how to add a new drive is an important maintenance task. You'll need to handle the physical installation of a disk on your own. It could be SAS or a SATA disk or like in my case, an external USB drive. If you're using a physical machine, this is pretty straightforward. If you're using a virtual machine, you'll need to attach the disk or external drive to your VM using your VM software's disk or USB management options. Depending on your setup, your system may be configured to map disks automatically if they're a recognized partition type. But if they're not partitioned or if you need to change the partition, let's have a look at that. Partitions are logical divisions of a physical disk. One disk can have one or more partitions, each with a different filesystem on it. If you had two…

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