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Mounting new SSD and creating swap
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Creating the disk

$ sudo fdisk /dev/sda

After the above step you will get output which requires user inputs

Follow this link for more help: Link

$ sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1
$ sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/SSD_120/
$ sudo blkid | grep /dev/sda1 # To get the UUID of the disk

Edit the fstab file to mount this permanently

$ sudo vi /etc/fstab

Add UUID and other details at the end of file to make the mount permanent

Ex: UUID=33333333-3b3b-3c3c-3d3d-3e3e3e3e3e3e /media/SSD_120 ext4 defaults,nofail 1 2

Creating swap area

$ sudo fallocate -l 8G /media/SSD_120/swapfile  # Create swap file for 8GB
$ sudo chmod 600 /media/SSD_120/swapfile  # Permissions

Make the swap file into swap area

$ sudo mkswap /media/SSD_120/swapfile
$ sudo swapon /media/SSD_120/swapfile

Edit the fstab file to add this permanently

$ sudo vi /etc/fstab

Add the following line

/media/SSD_120/swapfile swap swap defaults 0 0

Reboot

$ sudo reboot now

Links used:

  1. Attaching new disk
  2. Creating swap area
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