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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]].
Another approach is to add the new space to an existing ''volume group'' or create a new volume group. When Fedora is installed a volume group is created and called vg_''VolGroup00hostname''-lv_root, where ''hostname'' is the host name of the Fedora system. Within this volume group is a logical volume called ''LogVol00'' which is used to store the / file system. By configuring the new disk as part of a volume group (for example VolGroup00vg_myfedora-lv_root) we are able to increase the disk space available to the logical volumes. Using this approach we are able, therefore, to increase the size of the / file system by allocating some or all of the space on the new disk to ''LogVol00''. This topic will be discussed in detail in the chapter entitled [[Adding a New Disk to a Fedora Volume Group and Logical Volume]].
== Getting Started ==
