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One of the first problems encountered by users these days is that they run out of disk space to store data. Fortunately disk space is now one of the cheapest IT commodities. In the next two chapters we will look at the steps necessary to configure Fedora Linux to use the space provided via the installation of a new internal disk drive.
== Mounted Filesystems or Logical Volumes ==
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There are two ways to configure a new disk drive into a Fedora Linux system. One very simple method is to create one or more Linux partitions on the new drive, create Linux file systems on those partitions and then mount them at specific mount points so that they can be accessed. This approach will be covered in this chapter of [[Fedora Linux Essentials]].
== Configuring Fedora to Automatically Mount a Filesystem ==
In order to set up the system so that the new filesystem is automatically mounted at boot time we an entry needs to be added to the ''/etc/fstab'' file.
The following example shows an fstab file configured to automount our /photos partition:
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