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Adding a second hard drive to your HDA (view source)
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table GUID-partitioned] hard drives (such as those previously used in a Mac or have GPT partition tables) are not supported in this tutorial.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_nano nano] is used as the command-line text editor (refer to [httphttps://www.howtogeeklinuxize.com/howto/42980post/thehow-beginnersto-guide-touse-nano-the-linux-command-line-text-editor/ beginners guide how to install/use the nanoeditor] as needed).
=Prerequisites=
Fedora
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:'''NOTE:''' <code>yum</code> (deprecated) has been replaced with <code>dnf</code> as the package manager for Fedora 23 and greater package manager.
Ubuntu
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Up to 2TB, at the ''(parted)'' prompt, enter:
# mklabel msdos (answer ''yes'' when if prompted)
# mkpart primary 0% 100%
# quit
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Greater than 2TB, at the ''(parted)'' prompt, enter:
# mklabel gpt (answer ''yes'' when if prompted)
# mkpart primary 0% 100%
# quit
Answer ''yes''. The <code>-cn</code> option we're using can safely be used on mounted file systems.
==Power Spin Down Hard Drives==
Low power is a good thing to have in servers. If you do not use your server very often, you may want to force the hard drives to spin down faster than the default. Here is how.
