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+title: "Manually formatting, mounting and using Hetzner volumes"
+date: 2019-07-04T15:40:00
+tags: ["formats", "linux", "servers", "snippets", "software"]
+---
+
+I've recently moved all my server infrastructure over to Hetzner, and to date everything's been going swimmingly.
+
+The default partition options though aren't ideal, so I'm scrapping my existing volume and recreating it manually, properly.
+
+Firstly, login to your Hetzner account and create your volume:
+
+```
+Volumes > Create Volume > Size in GB
+Name whatever
+Mount options Manual
+Create & Buy Now
+```
+
+Now find the partition after logging into your server via issuing `lsblk`. In my case, this was `/dev/sdb`
+
+You can now partition this new drive as a GPT volume by doing the following:
+```
+gdisk /dev/sdb
+o
+n
+enter
+enter
+enter
+w
+enter
+```
+
+One partitioned, you can format this new partition as ext4, via the following:
+```
+sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
+```
+Seeing as though I'm going to be using this partition as extra storage for downloaded files I don't really need the reserved blocks it offers, which can be disabled via:
+```
+sudo tune2fs -m0 /dev/sdb1
+```
+
+Now, we'll make a mount point for the newly formatted volume:
+```
+mkdir $HOME/mountpoint
+```
+
+It's also worthwhile grabbing the disk's UUID via `sudo blkid /dev/sdb1 -s UUID -o value`.
+
+Now we're going to add an entry in `/etc/fstab` so the partition will be mounted automatically. You'll need to edit this file as root and add the following line:
+```
+UUID=your-uuid-from-above /home/youruser/mountpoint ext4 discard,nofail,defaults 0 0
+```
+
+Now that your `fstab` file is ammended, you can remount all your partitions via: `sudo mount -a`
+
+Last but not least, change the owner of the directory to prevent file permission issues:
+```
+sudo chown youruser:youruser /home/user/mountpoint -R
+```