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How do I mount a disk in CentOS 6?
Mounted File Systems or Logical Volumes There are two ways to configure a new disk drive into a CentOS 6 system. One very simple method is to create one or more Linux partitions on the new drive, create Linux file systems on those partitions and then mount them at specific mount points so that they can be accessed.
How do I add a hard drive to vmware Linux?
In the vSphere Client inventory, right-click the virtual machine and select Edit Settings. Click the Hardware tab and click Add. Select Hard Disk and click Next. Complete the wizard.
How to add a new hard drive to a CentOS system?
Select the new disk device and click on the Advanced tab to identify the device name. In the following figure the new hard disk has been assigned to /dev/hdb: The following output is from the same system after a second hard disk drive has been installed: As shown above, the new hard drive has been assigned to the device file /dev/hdb.
Where does the second disk drive go in CentOS?
This shows that the disk drive represented by /dev/hda is itself divided into 2 partitions, represented by /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. In this instance, /dev/hdc is the CDROM. In all likelihood, when a second disk drive is detected by the system it will be assigned to /dev/hdb. Another option is to install and run the Hardware Browser.
Which is the primary hard drive in CentOS 7?
The two lines above show that this particular server is using the vd* notation, but sd* is also used. Here the primary drive, vda, has two partitions – vda1 and vda2. We can now use the following command to find other disks: We can see both our original disk, vda, and the new disk vdb.
How do I mount a new disk in CentOS 7?
To use the new disk we now need to mount it. When you’ve decided where you want to mount the disk, first create that folder on your server. We’re going to use ‘home2’ for our disk. We can now mount the disk to that location: Revisiting the df command we can now see that the new disk is mounted.