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This document describe the steps to add new hard drive to linux machine in Vmware
environment
 How to add a new hard drive to VMWARE
 Navigation: VM -> Settings
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Click on Add button.
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Select Hard Disk & Click on Next.
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Select “Create New Virtual disk” & Click Next.
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Select “SCSI” disk type & Click Next.
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Select Disk size as per the requirement (Lets take 10 GB) and click next.
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Specify a disk file and click finish.
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Now the hard disk is added in Vmware as shown in below screenshot and click on OK .
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Now power on the Vmware Machine.
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Enter Username and Password.
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Linux Screen appears like the below screenshot.
 Add the new hard drive to Linux Machine.
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We can check the existing hard drives in Linux Machine by issuing the following
command.
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We can check the existing mount points by issuing the following command.
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Now check the partition information by issuing the below command.
# fdisk -l
Here /dev/sdb drive is the new drive, and this is the drive that we have added in Vmware
earlier in previous steps.
 Issue the below command to create partition.
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Enter ‘n’ to create new partition.
Please Note : We have entered ‘p’ for Primary Partition and accepted the default vaules.
 Enter ‘w’ to create the partition table.
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Now issue the following command to make the file system (ext3).
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
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Issue the following command to check for the partition, just created.
# fdisk -l
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Now mount the newly created partition, for this we have to create a directory (/d02)
and mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 /root/d02,as shown below
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We can also check now the existing mount points.
Now we have created the mount point for the newly added hard drive. Now it is ready to
use in Linux.
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If we want to make the mount point permanently, then we need to do the following,
# vi /etc/fstab
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Following screen will appear .We need to edit the fstab file as follows:
/dev/sdb1 /root/d02
ext3 defaults
00
and Save the file.
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