Partition, format, and mount a drive on Ubuntu

Reference:

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