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Revision as of 22:57, 20 January 2025
Partition and Format a New Disk
List partition layout on all block devices
parted -l
Open parted on the block device you want to modify
parted /dev/sdb
View partition table for block device specified above
(parted) print
Create a new partition table
If needed.
(parted) mklabel gpt
Make new XFS partition filling up entire block device
(parted) mkpart hdd xfs 0% 100%
Make a new filesystem on the new partition
mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1
Find UUID of a partition
lsblk -f
Mount a partition at boot
Edit your /etc/fstab to add a line like the following:
UUID=5b433ecf-875a-4282-a876-47073fc3a207 /mnt/hdd xfs defaults 0 0