Adding another HDD to the system

[arya6000]

Hello

I have been using Ubuntu for about a year now, and its installed on a 60 GB HDD, but the HDD is running out of space. I decided to add more space to it, I had a 80 GB HDD laying around so I connected to my computer, but the HDD is FAT32 right now and it can't be used in Ubuntu. What can I do so I can use this HDD on Ubuntu?

Thanks

[devils casper]

create partition and format in ext3 filesystem in second harddisk. if you are familiar with fdisk, create/format partition through with that OR install GParted in Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install gparted

GParted is also available in Ubuntu Desktop CD.

[arya6000]

create partition and format in ext3 filesystem in second harddisk. if you are familiar with fdisk, create/format partition through with that OR install GParted in Ubuntu.

sudo apt-get install gparted

GParted is also available in Ubuntu Desktop CD.

Thanks for the program, I formated my 80 GB HDD to ext3, but it still doesn't show up in "My Computer" I tried accessing it from /dev/hdb1 and even tho the icon is there it wont let me in, so I can read/write to the HDD. Is there anything that I can do?


Thanks

[KyKo]

You'll probably have to add that hard drive into your /etc/fstab. A quick search should show you how to do it.

[devils casper]

yes. as suggested by KyKo, you have to add entries of second harddisk's partitions in /etc/fstab file.
post the output of 'sudo fdisk -l' command here.