Ubuntu 14.04: Adding a second hard drive/additional storage

Adding a second hard drive/additional storage
Note: This is for an OS drive “sda” and a Data drive “sdb”

• ls /dev/sd*
  • Because sdb has no partitions there should be no sdb1 or sdb2 (paritions)
• fdisk /dev/sdb
• n
• p
• Enter
• Enter
• w
• mkfs.ext4 -L /images /dev/sdb1
• nano /etc/fstab
  • Add the following line at the botton of this file
    • /dev/sdb1 /images ext4 defaults 1 2
  • Ctrl + O
  • Enter
  • Ctrl + x
• mkdir /images
• mount -a
  • If there are no errors, then everythig is ok…
  • If there are errors
    • nano /etc/fstab