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Simple Fellow
Asked: 2019-10-30 23:23:37 +0800 CST

How to add a new HDD

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I'm running Ubuntu as my guest OS from vmware and want to add a new HDD. so I added this

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The 10 GB HDD added but I do not see it appearing in Ubuntu anywhere. I tried sudo ls /dev/sd* and all I got was sda0 and sda1.

I tried GParted but it won't run. I tried KDE Partition manager but it errors out saying you are not the root. I tried Ubuntu's built-in disk manager and this is what it shows:

ubuntu disk tool

and here is the output of lsblk: lsblk output

So what should I do? How do I get the new HDD in linux?

hard-drive 18.04

1 Answers

  1. it turned out to be a pretty stupid thing. I read the documentation and did a little research. it seems that I needed a drive size at least 20 GB.

    not sure if that's some limitation from ubuntu or VMware. so I did that and it appeared fine as /dev/sdb and everything is working fine now.

    10GB drive just doesn't work!

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