There are two things to
keep in mind as you read through this section: a hard disk is divided into
partitions, and each of these partitions hosts a file system. Your brand
new hard disk has neither, so we begin with partitioning. In order to
proceed, you must be root
.
First you have
to know the hard disk's “name” (i.e.: what file it is
designated as). Suppose the new drive is set up as the slave on
your primary IDE interface. In that case, it will be known as
/dev/hdb
.[22]. Please
refer to the Starter Guide's Managing Your Partitions
section, which will explain how to partition a
disk.
DiskDrake will also create the file systems for you, so
once the partitioning and file system creation steps are complete,
we can proceed.
[22] Determining the name of a disk is explained in Section 2, “Conventions for Naming Disks and Partitions”.