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Create Partitions from Command Line

1. Get a list of drives installed to identify the current device of the drive you are looking to format:
   • fdisk -l | grep '^Disk'
     • find the /dev/sd* that matches what you're trying to configure
2. fdisk /dev/sd[driveLetterNoBrackets]
   • might look something like fdisk /dev/sdc
   • fdisk is an interactive prompt
     • m for help
     • g to create a GPT partition table
     • n to add new partition
     • w to write changes to disk
3. Once the partition is made, format it. For example:
   • mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1
4. Mount via UUID as seen below

Mount a folder as another drive:

1. edit /etc/fstab
   • /path/to/source/folder /mount/point none bind,nobootwait,_netdev 0 0
   • this can be used to mount /var/www on a separate drive, yet retain existing paths
     • don't forget to copy the permissions of the original folder that gets moved to the new mount point

Mount via UUID

1. get UUID
   • sudo blkid /dev/sdxy
2. enter into /etc/fstab
   • UUID=[uuidnobrackets] /mount/point ext4 defaults

this document last modified: October 06 2017 21:42

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