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    Adding new internal Hard Disk DIrve

    System: Dell Optiplex 755
    OS: Ubuntu 8.10

    A hardware tech installed an additional disk dirve in my machine early this morning. He indicated that the BIOS can see the disk correctly. So, the question is How do I get Ubunto to mount this. i've looked in the forums and seen the discussion of adding a line to /etc/fstab, but I don't know what the device name should be. If I do "ls -l sd*" in /dev I get:
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Dec 19 06:43 sda
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Dec 19 06:43 sda1
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 2 Dec 19 06:43 sda2
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 5 Dec 19 06:43 sda5
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Dec 19 06:43 sdb

    when I do a "df" I get:

    Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda1 230528596 8537340 210281080 4% /
    tmpfs 1993860 0 1993860 0% /lib/init/rw
    varrun 1993860 96 1993764 1% /var/run
    varlock 1993860 0 1993860 0% /var/lock
    udev 1993860 2816 1991044 1% /dev
    tmpfs 1993860 104 1993756 1% /dev/shm
    lrm 1993860 2380 1991480 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-9-generic/volatile


    pluse some other drive that are mounted over the network using fuse.

    Is the new disk the sdb in /dev ?

    If this has been discussed already please point me to the appropriate forum entry.

    Thanks

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    Re: Adding new internal Hard Disk DIrve

    ok, this has gotten me to the place where I am editing the /etc/fstab file.

    I notice that the drives have a UUID=<some very log hex> is this important for the new drive?

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    Re: Adding new internal Hard Disk DIrve

    you can use UUID or '/dev/sd_' format. To find the UUID of the new drive:

    sudo blkid

    ( or sudo blkid -c)

    or

    sudo vol_id /dev/sdb?

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    Exclamation Re: Adding new internal Hard Disk DIrve -- SOLVED

    OK, problem solved, and thanks given

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