[wplug] new HDD

[Vanco, Don]

Without taking the time to read all the replies (I'm on slow dial-up) you
can use hdparm
 
hdparm -I "device" - can't recall, but it may actually spit out serial
number info.
 
If the 2 drives are the same it's very likely that fdisk _will_ give you the
same info on c/s/h info.
 
FYI - redhat-config-foo tools are just GUI front ends for common GNU tools.
RH is 100% Open Source.  Wanting to know command line stuff is admirable,
but unless you're familiar with all of what the tools alter (especially in
the case of the network tools) it's pretty easy to mess things up.  Case in
point - a GUI tool that allows you to look at all your installed drives
simultaneously really makes adding drives stress free.
 
Don

-----Original Message----- 
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org on behalf of Brandon Kuczenski 
Sent: Sat 2/21/2004 8:26 PM 
To: WPLUG 
Cc: 
Subject: [wplug] new HDD



I just installed a new HDD as a primary slave.  It is unformatted.  I plan
to mount it as /home.  But I'm hesitant to 'fdisk /dev/hdb' because when I
enter 'df /dev/hdb' it gives me the same info as 'df /dev/hda'.  Is this
normal?  how can I be sure I'm formatting the right drive?  How can I be
sure the new drive has even been recognized (short of rebooting and
checking the BIOS post)?

System: RH9.  But I want to do this using just the GNU tools and not any
redhat-config-foo.

-Brandon


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