ubuntu, add a new disk

Step 1, format the new disk, take the disk /dev/sdb as an example(root is needed)

mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb

after this command, the disk is readable to ubuntu

Step 2, mount the disk to a mount pointer, for example, i'd like to mount the new disk to /mnt/disk2

cd /mnt

mkdir disk2

mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /mnt/disk2

now, you can visit the new disk in directory disk2

but the new disk is not auto mount while you power up, so we need to configure it to auto mount

Step 3, auto mount configure

vi /etc/fstab

in this file, add a new line like below

/dev/sdb     /mnt/disk2       ext3        rw

now, the job done