How to add additional disks in Windows

To add and partition secondary disks in a windows server follow the steps.

1. Login to server as Administrator.

2. Navigate  Start >> my computer (right click) >> Manage and select the Storage >> Disk Management link.

3. Here select the secondary drive, which should be listed as Disk 1 and un-initialized. Right click
this drive, and select Format.

4. Finish the wizard.

 

 

How to add additional disks in Linux based Servers

To add and partition secondary disks in a linux server follow the steps.

1.  Login to server as root.

2.  Run the command      fdisk -l

You can see the new disk like /dev/sdb

3.   To format and partition the disk run the following commands.

fdisk /dev/sdb

#  m –> prints all commands
#  n  –>  to create a new partition
#  d –>  to delete a  existing partition
#  p –>  for primary partition
#  1 –>  for 1st partition
#  w –>  to write and exit

4. To create the filesystem in the new partition run the following command.

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1

5.  To mount the created partition in the server as /disk2 .

#   mkdir /disk2

#    vi  /etc/fstab  (Edit fstab for the new disk add the following line )

/dev/sdb1               /backup                 ext3    defaults        0 0

#   mount  -a ( To mount the devices entered in fstab)

#  df -h (  To verify the mounted devices )