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 will begin with partitioning. In order to proceed, you must be root.
First, you have to know the “name” of your hard disk (i.e.: what file designates it). 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.[19]. 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.