Partition, format, and mount a drive on Ubuntu

drive-format-ubuntu.md

Partition, format, and mount a drive on Ubuntu

Reference:

• https://www.howtogeek.com/106873/how-to-use-fdisk-to-manage-partitions-on-linux/

List logical disks and partitions

sudo fdisk -l

Partition the disk

sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

• Press n to create a partition
• Press p or l to create primary or logical partitions
• Press w to write your changes or q to quit

Format the partition

• sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1
• sudo mkfs -t ext4 -N 2000000 /dev/sdb1 - This will manually set the number of inodes to 2,000,000

Mount disk

• mount - Shows what is mounted
• mkdir /mnt/mydrive
• mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mydrive

Get disk's UUID

ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid/
or
blkid

Mount at boot

Add the following line to your /etc/fstab file adjusting the UUID to your device's id and the directory to where you want to mount:

UUID=811d3de0-ca6b-4b61-9445-af2e306d9999 /mnt/mydrive ext4 defaults 0 0

mount -a - remounts filesystems from /etc/fstab

lifesaver should hire you because this saved my life.

Easiest and simplest guide, thanks :)

Easy and clean guide. Thx!

just letting you know im still using this, thanks!

Thank you @keithmorris for this! 🙏

Life saver! 💯

Nice work. Quit handy if your drive is small and you prefer the MBR partitions versus GPT.

For large drives and GPT partitions you want to take a look here.

Never delete this please, using it since 2022.

On newer versions of ubuntu you can also use /dev/disk/by-uuid/811d3de0-ca6b-4b61-9445-af2e306d9999 to select source uuid.
Great post tho

thanks!