Background I was doing some work that needed a backup on a server. I chose to install an Ubuntu Server to store all the backups. Initially, I thought it didn't need to be a-lot of space. How wrong I was. As you can imagine, the backup size kept growing and growing and it was not yet a week before I had to add an additional disk to my Ubuntu installation. I added another disk and then started the other issue of mounting it logically and making sure that it all booted up correctly. Whilst researching on adding this new disk to my Ubuntu installation, I came across this excellent article detailing what I needed. Below are my summarized steps for my future reference. Identify the drive sudo fdisk -l Select and format the drive sudo fdisk /dev/sdb n for new partition. p for primary partition and 1 for the first partition. Choose the default sectors for the first and last sectors Create a file system on the partition sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 Mount the new drive sudo mount /...