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+title: "GPT formatting new drives under Linux"
+date: 2018-11-14T10:42:00
+tags: ["guides", "linux", "servers", "snippets"]
+---
+
+So, you've bought a shiny new hard drive and would like to format it and use it on your headless Linux server.
+For this guide, we'll be partitioning it as a GPT partition to support sizes over 2TB, and formatting it as ext4.
+
+Find device id (/dev/sdc, etc):
+```
+lsblk
+```
+
+Edit the drive, using fdisk in GPT mode with:
+```
+sudo gdisk /dev/sdc
+d
+n
+[enter] x5
+w
+```
+
+Make a partition:
+```
+sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1
+```
+
+Verify everything formatted correctly:
+```
+lsblk --fs /dev/sdc1
+```
+
+Find the drives new UUID:
+```
+blkid /dev/sdc1
+```
+
+Lastly, add a mountpoint to `/etc/fstab`:
+```
+UUID=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 /mnt/mount-point  ext4 defaults 0 0
+```