Despite having used Linux as my primary operating system for two and a half years, I have never been completely comfortable with the idea of adding a new fixed disk to a system. Jack added a new IDE drive to his desktop, and after reading the tutorial which starts at The Theory Behind Hard Drive Management, I was able to partition and format it, and actually feel as though I knew what I was doing.
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And it worked, too!
I think that one of the problems with running a single or a small number of Linux machines is that if you don’t freqently reconfigure a handful of machines the configuration magic (parted and nano -w /etc/fstab I would assume) doesn’t stick to the brain the way that our cranky, crashy friend makes things stick — through seemingly endless repetition.
What filesystem did you decide on for the new addition?