From cc7735ea9e10ebc940b0dc854f698c1ca5a1cf11 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Trowbridge <paul@hptrow.me>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2021 15:27:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] note on adding a drive

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+RAID edits
+* Enter the system setup menu at boot time, then you also have to press additional keys to get to the RAID screen
+* create a new virtual disk and assign the new disks, then initialize the VD
+
+Mounting the new VD
+* find the disk with `fdisk -l | grep '^Disk'`
+* create a partition table
+    * `fdisk /dev/sdb`
+    * `p` to list partition table if any
+    * `n` to create a new partition
+    * `w` to write the new partition
+* format the new partition with `mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1`
+* create an access folder, maybe at //mnt/backup
+* run the mount `mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/backup`
+* edit fstab by adding
+    //dev/sda1  /mnt/backup ext4    defaults    1   2