1TB harddrive not working in linux

Question

Hai

I bought a 1 TB new hard disk. When installed in linux it say's fsck.ext3 file system not found. when i checked the BIOS it detected the hard disk. what to do to solve the problem in linux?.

Thank you

Answer 1

If you say 'no filesystem was created', I suggest you use fdisk to create partition(s) and the mke2fs or a similar utility to create a filesystem. Filesystems do not magically appear; you need to create them.

More specifically, you run

fdisk -l

to check whether the disk is detected by the OS at all. Then you run

fdisk /dev/yourdisk

and create partition(s) with the appropriate commands. fdisk has a fine help function, but basically, you create a new partition with 'n', and fdisk will ask you for more information.

Then, you might have to run

partprobe /dev/yourdisk

to make sure Linux sees your new partition(s) correctly.

Then, at last, you run

mke2fs -j /dev/yourparition

on each created partition to create ext3 filesystems. For ext2, leave off the -j. But you can also use any mkfs.* utility available on your system.

Finally, add the new partition(s) to your /etc/fstab file, by adding (a) line(s) following this convention:

device     mountpoint   filesystem     filesystemoptions     fs_freq     fs_passno

So, for example:

/dev/sda1     /u01     ext2     defaults     1     2

and you're all done.

Answer 2

Sounds like you need to use a utility like Gparted to create a partition, then use the appropriate utility for the filesystem you want to create the FS.

Answer 3

You need to create a filesystem with mkfs on the disk before using it. You may want to partition it first too. Partitions aren't mandatory to linux if you simply want to use it as a data disk, however you'll need to partition it to be able to boot from it.