Adding a new hard drive for use as a scratch space in the IMAPP Virtual Appliance.
Liam Gumley
March 14, 2010

1. Add a new hard disk to the virtual appliance
NOTE: The appliance must be shut down first.

In the VMware Player or Fusion settings, add a new hard disk, and store the disk
image on the host device you wish to use for scratch space. We used a 120 GB SSD.

2. Start the virtual appliance.

3. Configure the new hard disk in the virtual appliance.

The process used here is described at the following website:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InstallingANewHardDrive

The commands we used are listed below.

sudo su -
apt-get install lshw
lshw -C disk			(note the 'logical name' of the new disk) 
fdisk /dev/sdb			(create a new partition by typing n, p, 1, enter, enter, w)
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb1		(format the disk)
tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdb1		(modify reserved space)
sudo mkdir /scratch		(create mount point)
gedit /etc/fstab		(add the following line so new disk mounts on boot)

/dev/sdb1	/scratch	ext3	defaults	0	2

mount -a			(mount the disk)
chown -R modis:modis /scratch	(change ownership)