Chapter 8 Adding a Disk—Unix Hard Disk Basics.ppt

Chapter 8: Adding a Disk—Unix Hard Disk Basics Installation and Configuration Barry Kane CMSC-691X Basic Steps Choose Disk Install Hardware Create Device Files Partition Format file system Configure, Label, Mount Choose Disk SCSI IDE (ATA) Fibre Channel USB FireWire (IEEE 1394 or iLink) SCSI Small Computer System Interface 5, 10, 20, 40, 80 or 160 MB/sec. 7 to 15 devices per bus Good at arbitrating multiple bus requests The Evolution of SCSI IDE Integrated Drive Electronics Inexpensive competes for bus access (only one at a time) max 2 devices/bus Dependent on BIOS First 1024 cylinders for boot access Connect the Disk IDE- choose master or slave, and IDE bus number SCSI - make sure cables are properly terminated. Pick device number. Low Level Format Make sure device entry exists (/dev/xxxx) Format the disk using manufactures programs -- most disks come preformated Partition fdisk, pdisk, cdisk File systems and swap ext2 Fat32 Unix Swap HFS Others Create File System Unix, Swap, or other file systems mkfs or newfs Check the file system - fsck Also used to repair a fs with the -r option Can walk through the fstab file and check partitions in the order specified by the Pass parameter Label and Mount mount umount mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom umount /mnt/cdrom mount -a Label and Mount /etc/fstab file Device file or virtual file system Mount point File system type Options Dump Pass# fstab file example Adding a Disk to Red Hat Linux Install new disk IDE make sure bios can recognize SCSI scan SCSI bus for ID conflict SCSI bios can low level format if no interface boot to see if you must install a SCSI driver before the kernel can recognize the disk Adding a Disk to Red Hat — cont Ignore initial warnings about the partition table — partitioning after system booted First check to see if device files exist form /dev/sdXN first on chain, first partition /dev/sda1 If no device file then make them /dev/MAKEDEV script e.g., # cd /dev  # ./MAKEDEV sda Adding