Notes on installing disk drives using Ubuntu

Ubuntu disk installation notes

I periodically put new/additional disks in one of my Debian based computers. I never can remember the steps.

I have been using the Disk Utility GUI tool under System->Admin for quite awhile now to create partitions and format. I then put the mount command in /etc/rc.local for some reason that I don't remember why. I think Disk Utility can do the mount point as well. But the old fashion way is something like this:

fdisk -l to see it and get the device

fdisk to create the partition (I don't remember the command. "n" maybe for new.)

mkfs to create the filesystem

I guess I put the mount in rc.local because I no longer understand /etc/fstab.