Adding a second hdd

[dreamerman]

My pfsense is currently installed in a 240GB SSD and I have a spare SATA hdd I can use to bolster my box. It is easy under windows environment but not quiet under Linux. I read some guides on how to do this in particular to those with squid in mind but those guides are a few years old. Can anyone let me know if I must use command line or I could get away with using GUI?

[dreamerman]

OK I just went ahead to install a second SATA hdd. Steps I took is:

• Halt pfsense (I read somewhere this is the right way to shutdown)
• Physically install hdd
• Reboot machine and use gparted to format hdd with ext4 (is this the appropriate filesystem?)
• Make sure BIOS recognise the hdd correctly
• Reboot and enter GUI
• I used Diagnostics SMART to retrieve below info. Looks Ok to me.
• Does this mean my second hdd is ready for use within pfsense? I want to use it for caching.

_smartctl 6.4 2015-06-04 r4109 [FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE amd64] (local build)
Copyright (C) 2002-15, Bruce Allen, Christian Franke, www.smartmontools.org

=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Model Family:    SAMSUNG SpinPoint F1 DT
Device Model:    SAMSUNG HD161GJ
Serial Number:    S1VCJ9ASC08901
LU WWN Device Id: 5 0024e9 201759fa4
Firmware Version: 1AC01117
User Capacity:    160,041,885,696 bytes [160 GB]
Sector Size:      512 bytes logical/physical
Device is:        In smartctl database [for details use: -P show]
ATA Version is:  ATA/ATAPI-7, ATA8-ACS T13/1699-D revision 3b
Local Time is:    Sat Apr 30 09:37:33 2016 AEST
SMART support is: Available - device has SMART capability.
SMART support is: Enabled

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED

General SMART Values:
Offline data collection status:  (0x00) Offline data collection activity
was never started.
Auto Offline Data Collection: Disabled.
Self-test execution status:      (  0) The previous self-test routine completed
without error or no self-test has ever
been run.
Total time to complete Offline
data collection: ( 2017) seconds.
Offline data collection
capabilities: (0x7b) SMART execute Offline immediate.
Auto Offline data collection on/off support.
Suspend Offline collection upon new
command.
Offline surface scan supported.
Self-test supported.
Conveyance Self-test supported.
Selective Self-test supported.
SMART capabilities:            (0x0003) Saves SMART data before entering
power-saving mode.
Supports SMART auto save timer.
Error logging capability:        (0x01) Error logging supported.
General Purpose Logging supported.
Short self-test routine
recommended polling time: (  2) minutes.
Extended self-test routine
recommended polling time: (  34) minutes.
Conveyance self-test routine
recommended polling time: (  5) minutes.
SCT capabilities:       (0x003f) SCT Status supported.
SCT Error Recovery Control supported.
SCT Feature Control supported.
SCT Data Table supported.

SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG    VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate    0x000f  100  100  051    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0007  093  093  011    Pre-fail  Always      -      3130
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032  098  098  000    Old_age  Always      -      2140
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct  0x0033  100  100  010    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
  7 Seek_Error_Rate        0x000e  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
  8 Seek_Time_Performance  0x0024  100  100  000    Old_age  Offline      -      12388
  9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032  095  095  000    Old_age  Always      -      24254
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
11 Calibration_Retry_Count 0x0012  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
12 Power_Cycle_Count      0x0032  098  098  000    Old_age  Always      -      2137
13 Read_Soft_Error_Rate    0x000e  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
183 Runtime_Bad_Block      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
184 End-to-End_Error        0x0033  100  100  099    Pre-fail  Always      -      0
187 Reported_Uncorrect      0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
188 Command_Timeout        0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
190 Airflow_Temperature_Cel 0x0022  076  072  000    Old_age  Always      -      24 (Min/Max 17/24)
194 Temperature_Celsius    0x0022  071  070  000    Old_age  Always      -      29 (Min/Max 17/29)
195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      16621
196 Reallocated_Event_Count 0x0032  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
197 Current_Pending_Sector  0x0012  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
198 Offline_Uncorrectable  0x0030  100  100  000    Old_age  Offline      -      0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x003e  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      2
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate  0x000a  100  100  000    Old_age  Always      -      0
201 Soft_Read_Error_Rate    0x000a  253  253  000    Old_age  Always      -      0

SMART Error Log Version: 1
No Errors Logged

SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error

1  Short offline      Completed without error      00%    23981        -

2  Short offline      Completed without error      00%    23956        -

3  Short offline      Completed without error      00%        0        -

SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN  MIN_LBA  MAX_LBA  CURRENT_TEST_STATUS
    1        0        0  Not_testing
    2        0        0  Not_testing
    3        0        0  Not_testing
    4        0        0  Not_testing
    5        0        0  Not_testing
Selective self-test flags (0x0):
  After scanning selected spans, do NOT read-scan remainder of disk.
If Selective self-test is pending on power-up, resume after 0 minute delay._