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diff --git a/content/posts/gpt-formatting-drives-under-linux.md b/content/posts/gpt-formatting-drives-under-linux.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..61de0b7 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/posts/gpt-formatting-drives-under-linux.md @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +--- +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 +``` |