howto add new hard drives/cdroms

[kfizzle]

hey how do you add new hard drives and cdroms to your debian system?
im just wondering.

like for example how do i add new partitions or drives to my /dev/ folder?
or how do i make debian detect my new drives?

[nature]

hi,
your debian system should automatically detect your new hard drives(or cdrom,unless something is amiss).After that you can partition them(hard disk).Please refer to man page of 'fdisk'.
you could see the output of 'dmesg' to check if your devices are detected.
you need not add them to the /dev folder
regards

[antidrugue]

As nature said, the hard drive will be automatically detected.

Just add an entry for the partitions of that new hard drive or for the cdrom drive in /etc/fstab.

If you need to repartition/format the drive, fdisk + mkfs are just what you need. Here is an example on how to use them :
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/332623-post10.html