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System → Administration → Logical Volume Management (requires root password)

For existing IDE drives, you will possibly see under “Volume Groups → VolGroup00”

If your new harddrive is SATA, you will possibly see under “Uninitialized Entities”:

• /dev/sdd (s: SATA, d: Harddrive, d: the 4th drive)
• Check the size of the uninitialized entity to make sure it is indeed the new harddrive
• In the example screenshot below, the new harddrive is 931.51Gb

• Click 'Initialize Entity' underneath the volume view (middle frame)
• An unallocated volume will appear after the drive is initialized
• Choose Partition 1 and click 'Create a new volume group'

• Enter the new Volume Group Name in the pop-up window
• Leave the default options unchanged

• Under VolGroup01, create a new logical volume

• To make the entire drive as 1 partition, click 'Use remaining' or drag the bar to maximum in the pop-up window
• Enter LV name (e.g. Large2)
• For better file management, choose 'File System' to be 'Ext3'
• Before entering the 'Mount Point', a directory must be created for the harddrive to be mounted at
• For example, create a /Large2 using root
• Enter the 'Mount Point' as /Large2
• Click OK to finish formating and mounting the drive, this will take a couple minutes depending on the size of your harddrive

• See the screenshot after the new drive is configured

• Change the ownership of the directory to the user by typing in a terminal: chown user_name /Large2

Note: this seems all it needs for the user to have permission on writing data in the directory, as long as the file system of the drive is Ext3.