Thread: Fedora Core 6 installed on my machine

I have Fedora Core 6 installed on my machine. I was running out of space due to the low capacity of the hard disk drive. I have bought a new hard drive of 160 GB, but am unable to understand how to install and format it. I have physically connected the HDD as primary slave and the same is also detected by my system BIOS. How do I format and use this hard disk?

Since your new hardware is recognised by the BIOS, you need to check through your OS the device name that has been assigned to it. Run the following command as root to know the details:

This will give you the device name that your new hard disk has been assigned (in your case it should be hdb). After you know the device name you need to divide the hard disk into partitions. To do this you can use the jdisk command as follows:

You can press m to get the list of options. Press p to get the listing of the partitions-in your case this should display no partition, as it's a new disk. So, let's create a new partition by pressing n, and follow the on-screen display:

As you can see from the terminal output, you can choose p to make
a primary partition. fdisk always sets partition to 83 (Linux type) by default, although you always have options to play with different types of filesystems. Once you are done with partitioning, just press w to write the modifications permanently.

Next, format the partition you have just created. To format the new disk you can use the mkjs tool. This tool is used to build a Linux filesystem on a device-usually a hard disk partition (assuming that you have created only one partition):

This will format your hard disk as an ext3 filesystem. Once mkjs has finished its work, your partition is ready to be mounted and used. To mount the new partition, just create a folder in the /media directory named hdbl or anything you wish, and run the following command:

This will mount your partition. However, the next time you reboot your system, you have to manually mount it again. To mount yoUr partition automatically every time you boot your system, you need to append the following line in the /etc(fstab file:

If you are upgrading HD only (same machine) you can use Acronis for make cloning HD. Acronis DW only need a Seagate or Maxtor hd present in the machine (can be usb attached too). Here you can download the Acronis Disk Wizard. Burn the DW cd and boot with the cd. Select the old hd like source and the new like destiny. The partitions will be autosize or you can take by customize. You can cloning IDE, SATA, USB or SCSI disks. I was doing this job for Ntfs Windows disks but I undertand work for Linux too.
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If you want to build a new clean install of Fedora, start with Fedora DVD and use the build-in Fedora Anaconda tool to partition and format the new hd.