Plz help with Setting up a new HD on Red Hat!!!

[Dominik]

I am a total and complete noob with Red Hat. I was handed down this system at work and told to setup new 2TB HD's to work with our backup system. I have been stumbling around trying to figure it out but I'm pretty sure I'm just making a mess of things. Could someone give me or show me how to format and setup an external HD from step 1 to completion?

I actually do have one of the new HD's kinda working but it doesn't auto-mount when I plug it in. I've tried so many different things I'm not sure what I've done anymore. I'd really just like to start from "remove the HD from the packaging" and go from there.

Thank you so much for any help!

[fareedreg]

you need fstab to automount your hdd... and crontab for backup purposes..

[Dominik]

I have added the HD to the fstab. What is the crontab? and how do I access and make changes to it?

[ved]

i think you should try as given that it work :

http://www.skullbox.net/newsda.php

[yancek]

You can use the cron daemon to run scheduled tasks in the background such as backups. Here's aa link to one brief explanation. Just google crontab tutorial.:

Crontab – Quick Reference