Installing 2nd hard drive in existing linux computer [SOLVED]

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I have installed a 2nd SATA 500Gb hard drive in my existing Fedora 19 computer. How do I get the OS of recognize and use this new HD?
Thank You all for any help

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Hi Emp53 - and welcome to the Forum.

Once the new HDD is attached, it should appear listed in your file manager.
I am not familiar with Fedora but if it works anything like Ubuntu, you can also check with the following command:

 df | grep "/dev/sd"

This should list drives sda1 and sdb1

By the way; is the new HDD external or internal?

Keith

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It is internal installed on the SATA3 connector on the motherboard. Seagate New in box.

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The results of that ls | grep command only show sda1. nothing else.

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Under activities there is a “disks” utility that is a gui representation of whats in the system. This utility shows two 500Gb seagate hard drives, the first one listed as the master boot record and is the one that I assume I boot from and contains my Fedora OS. its device Id is /dev/sda1 and shows a mounting location
The second device Id is /dev/sdb this does not show a mounting location. If it is /dev/sdb then do I simply need to mount the device, if so, where should I mount it?

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By the way the HD box does not say whether it is formatted.

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  1. First of all, please copy and paste the output from the df command that you entered so that we can see what’s happening.

  2. By the way the HD box does not say whether it is formatted
    I presume you mean the box it came in. But it will be formatted.
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output from “fdisk -l”

root@new-host-7 ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x000510f7

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1026048 976773119 487873536 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/fedora_new–host–7-swap: 4177 MB, 4177526784 bytes,
8159232 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/fedora_new–host–7-root: 53.7 GB, 53687091200 bytes,
104857600 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/fedora_new–host–7-home: 441.7 GB, 441714737152
bytes, 862724096 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

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Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes
This looks good. Now please execute my suggestion: ``` df | grep "/dev/sd" ``` and post the output here. It's best to [b]copy[/b] the output and [b]paste[/b] it here, rather than just typing it.
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root@new-host-7 ~]# df | grep “/dev/sd”
/dev/sda1 487652 103222 354734 23% /boot

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That’s interesting: fdisk recognises the new disk but df doesn’t.
I don’t have any ideas at present, but will have a think. Perhaps another Member can help.

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Does it need to be mounted?

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It does indeed.
First of all, try

mount | grep "/dev/sd"

to check if it’s mounted somewhere unexpected.

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It looks to me that dev/sdb is not partitioned:

Disk /dev/sdb: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes

Missing the partition data

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The fdisk -l command doesn’t list partitions, I think. It didn’t list your sda partitions.
Please execute

mount | grep "/dev/sd"

and report the full result.

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the fdisk -l does list partitions:

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk label type: dos Disk identifier: 0x000510f7

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1026047 512000 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 1026048 976773119 487873536 8e Linux LVM

but listed none of them for /dev/sdb

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It does indeed with the “long” option.
Please try

mount | grep "/dev/sd"

and post the whole output.

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[root@new-host-7 home]# mount | grep “/dev/sd”
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw,relatime,seclabel,data=ordered)

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Sezo - Sorry, I missed your name on your posts.

Neither fdisk -l nor df list sdb on Emp’s computer so I can’t see how to create partitions unless the drive can be seen. If you can advise him, please jump in and take over.

Keith

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Assuming the new HD came formatted is it also safe to assume that it is NTFS ?