Thursday, May 31, 2012

UBUNTU: Add New Hard Disk in Virtual Server

Case: In Unlicensed vmware 

1. Power off the server
2. Right Click on server -> Edit Setting
3. Add New Hard Disk  ->  Next > Next
4. Disk Size: 25 GB  -> Case for db server(don't click thin provisioning)
5. Specify Datastore  ->  Datastore01
6. Next  ->  Next  ->  Finish  -> Ok

** Power on the server back.

How to present/mount New Hard Disk in Ubuntu? 
1. To list the HD in server
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb/ .......... 
2. To Format the new Hard Disk
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb
# Yes: Y  ->  Enter
# cd /
3. To Mount New HD in Ubuntu Server
# mkdir data && mount /dev/sdb/ /data/
# df -h
4. Configure/edit fstab file
# nano /etc/fstab

**Add line under the last row:(Can also refer to existing ubuntu server) /dev/sdb /data/ ext3 noatime 0 0 Ctrl X   ->   Y  ->  Enter (to save  ->  exit).

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