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Preparing a new disk for use on a Linux system can be quick and easy. There are many tools, filesystem formats, and partitioning schemes that may complicate the process if you have specialized needs, but if you want to get up and running quickly, it’s fairly straightforward.
This guide will cover the following process:
To partition the drive, we’ll use the parted
utility. In most cases, this will already be installed on the server.
Www dev c com gtav scripthookv. If you are on an Ubuntu or Debian server and do not have parted
yet, you can install it by typing:
If you are on a CentOS or Fedora server, you can install it by typing:
Before we set up the drive, we need to be able to properly identify it on the server.
If this is a completely new drive, the easiest way to find it on your server may be to look for the absence of a partitioning scheme. If we ask parted
to list the partition layout of our disks, it will give us an error for any disks that don’t have a valid partition scheme. This can be used to help us identify the new disk:
You should see an unrecognized disk label
error for the new, unpartitioned disk:
You can also use the lsblk
command and look for a disk of the correct size that has no associated partitions:
Remember to check lsblk
in every session before making changes. The /dev/sd*
and /dev/hd*
disk identifiers will not necessarily be consistent between boots, which means there is some danger of partitioning or formatting the wrong disk if you do not verify the disk identifier correctly.
Consider using more persistent disk identifiers like /dev/disk/by-uuid
, /dev/disk/by-label
, or /dev/disk/by-id
. See our introduction to storage concepts and terminology in Linux article for more information.
When you know the name the kernel has assigned your disk, you can partition your drive.
As mentioned in the introduction, we’ll create a single partition spanning the entire disk in this guide.
To do this, we first need to specify the partitioning standard we wish to use. GPT is the more modern partitioning standard, while the MBR standard offers wider support among operating systems. If you do not have any special requirements, it is probably better to use GPT at this point.
To choose the GPT standard, pass in the disk you identified like this:
If you wish to use the MBR format, type this instead:
Once the format is selected, you can create a partition spanning the entire drive by typing:
If we check lsblk
, we should see the new partition available:
Now that we have a partition available, we can format it as an Ext4 filesystem. To do this, pass the partition to the mkfs.ext4
utility.
We can add a partition label by passing the -L
flag. Select a name that will help you identify this particular drive:
sda
, sdb
, hda
, etc. The partitions on these disks have a number appended to the end. So we would want to use something like sda1
and notsda
.If you want to change the partition label at a later date, you can use the e2label
command:
You can see all of the different ways to identify your partition with lsblk
. We want to find the name, label, and UUID of the partition.
Some versions of lsblk
will print all of this information if we type:
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You should see something like this. The highlighted output indicate different methods you can use to refer to the new filesystem:
Now, we can mount the filesystem for use.
The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard recommends using /mnt
or a subdirectory under it for temporarily mounted filesystems. It makes no recommendations on where to mount more permanent storage, so you can choose whichever scheme you’d like. For this tutorial, we’ll mount the drive under /mnt/data
.
Create the directory by typing:
You can mount the filesystem temporarily by typing:
If you wish to mount the filesystem automatically each time the server boots, adjust the /etc/fstab
file:
Earlier, we issued a sudo lsblk --fs
command to display three filesystem identifiers for our filesystem. We can use any of these in this file. We’ve used the partition label below, but you can see what the lines would look like using the other two identifiers in the commented out lines:
You can learn about the various fields in the /etc/fstab
file by typing man fstab
. For information about the mount options available for a specific filesystem type, check man [filesystem]
(like man ext4
). For now, the mount lines above should get you started.
For SSDs, the discard
option is sometimes appended to enable continuous TRIM. There is debate over the performance and integrity impacts of performing continuous TRIM in this manner, and most distributions include method of performing periodic TRIM as an alternative.
Save and close the file when you are finished.
If you did not mount the filesystem previously, you can now mount it by typing:
After we’ve mounted the volume, we should check to make sure that the filesystem is accessible.
We can check if the the disk is available in the output from the df
command:
You should also be able to see a lost+found
directory within the /mnt/data
directory, which typically indicates the root of an Ext* filesystem:
We can also check that the file mounted with read and write capabilities by writing to a test file:
Read the file back just to make sure the write executed correctly:
You can remove the file after you have verified that the new filesystem is functioning correctly:
Your new drive should now be partitioned, formatted, mounted, and ready for use. This is the general process you can use turn a raw disk into a filesystem that Linux can use for storage. There are more complex methods of partitioning, formatting, and mounting which may be more appropriate in some cases, but the above is a good starting point for general use.
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