Add a drive - Revision history

M at 01:43, 3 June 2019

2019-06-03T01:43:08Z

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	To add a new drive:		To add a new drive, first '''SEE WHAT YOU HAVE''' and make note of it! You don't want to pick the wrong drive to format. :-)
	su -		su -
			df
			blkid
	# choose gpt format		# choose gpt format
	parted /dev/sdf mklabel gpt		parted /dev/sdf mklabel gpt

M at 22:57, 2 June 2019

2019-06-02T22:57:25Z

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	To add a new drive ~~using fdisk (these steps didn't work when drive >2TB)~~:		To add a new drive:
	su -		su -
	# choose gpt format		# choose gpt format

M at 22:56, 2 June 2019

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-To add a new drive:
+To add a new drive using fdisk (these steps didn't work when drive >2TB):
 # ls /dev/sd* # and make note of what you have
 # plug the new drive into a SATA socket
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     w # write and quit
 # format: mkfs.ext4 -m 0 /dev/sdf1 # the [-m 0] is very important; without it, goofy ext4 wastes 5% "saved for root" wtf
 # e2label /dev/sdb1 box-type-sizename # what a stupid f'in name for that util

M at 22:17, 2 June 2019

2019-06-02T22:17:06Z

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	To add a new drive:		To add a new drive:
	# ls /dev/sd* # and make note of what you have		# ls /dev/sd* # and make note of what you have
	# ~~stuff~~ the new drive ~~in the SATA tower or plug it~~ into a SATA socket		# plug the new drive into a SATA socket
	# ls /dev/sd* # you should now see something new, like [/dev/sdf]		# ls /dev/sd* # you should now see something new, like [/dev/sdf]
	# or do: cat /var/log/messages\|grep sd # to see what it used		# or do: cat /var/log/messages\|grep sd # to see what it used

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To add a new drive:
# ls /dev/sd* # and make note of what you have
# stuff the new drive in the SATA tower or plug it into a SATA socket
# ls /dev/sd* # you should now see something new, like [/dev/sdf]
# or do: cat /var/log/messages|grep sd # to see what it used
# fdisk looks good again...
fdisk /dev/sdg
p # to show what is there already, hopefully nothing
(d if needed to delete existing partitions)
n # new
1 # partition 1
<enter> # for default of 2048
<enter> # for default, end of drive
w # write and quit
# format: mkfs.ext4 -m 0 /dev/sdf1 # the [-m 0] is very important; without it, goofy ext4 wastes 5% "saved for root" wtf
# mount /dev/sdf1 /somewhere # make sure it looks good!
# install smartctl tools
smartctl -c /dev/sdf # to peek at available tests and how long they typically take to run
smartctl -t short /dev/sdf
watch -n 3 smartctl -l selftest /dev/sdf # until success, takes about 1 minute
# if you're feeling ambitious, rerun with [-t long]
# umount # we are NOT going to be manually mounting! we need to label the drive and put it in /etc/fstab
# e2label /dev/sdb1 box-type-sizename # what a stupid f'in name for that util
# emacs /etc/fstab - and put in an entry like this:
/dev/disk/by-label/box-type-sizename /my-mount-location ext4 noatime 0 2
# mount /my-mount-location # now it will be there when you reboot! but do this to get it NOW :-)
# Note that if you mount the new drive under /spiceflow, samba will already be serving it up, whoop!