Re: installing a second hard disk?

[Anand Sivaram <aspnair@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 05:06, Zachary Uram <netrek@gmail.com> wrote:

I just got a 500gb Hitachi hard drive (this is my second drive, my
first drive is /dev/sda).
What is the best way to install this in Linux? Is it better to run ext3 or ext4?

Zach

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Whenever possible use ext4, actually ext4 got merged into the kernel during 2.6.29 times.
It depends upon what debian version you are using.  Lenny standard debian kernel is 2.6.26 which does not have support for ext4, but if you are using backports then you get 2.6.32 kernel.
Also ext4 works with squeeze/sid.

You do not need to install anything.  Just connect it, then from root do "fdisk -l" you should see your new hard drive.