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

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:

and here is the output of lsblk:

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

Possible duplicate of How to make partitions mount at startup? — graham, Oct 30 '19 at 07:26
@Graham no it's not. that question talks about mounting it at a location, mine is not even showing anywhere as if it does not even exist — Simple Fellow, Oct 30 '19 at 07:29
Does it show when you list block devices (lsblk)? (I'd then likely use blkid to get the detail to add the entry in the file-system table). If it doesn't show I'd likely blame a vmware config issue on host. — guiverc, Oct 30 '19 at 08:06

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 31 '19 at 10:17

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!

How to add a new HDD

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