Check volume and available space
df -h List physical driver and volume
lsblkAfter reboot
lsblkIt will show something just like this
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 55.9G 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 55.9G 0 part
mmcblk0 179:0 0 14.9G 0 disk
├─mmcblk0p1 179:1 0 41.8M 0 part
└─mmcblk0p2 179:2 0 14.8G 0 part /
Check physical driver and volume information
sudo fdisk -l It will show something just like this at the last chapter
Disk /dev/sda: 55.9 GiB, 60022480896 bytes, 117231408 sectors
Disk model: 2135
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 33553920 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x11451419
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 2048 117231407 117231406 55.9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
sudo fdisk /dev/sda- Command [ d ]
delete partition - Command [ w ]
save change
sudo fdisk /dev/sda- Command [ n ]
create partition - Command [ p ]
choice primary partition - Command [ 1 ]
create single partition - Command [ Enter ]
default first sector - Command [ Enter ]
default last sector - Command [ w ]
save change
Format the partition with the ext4 file system
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 It will show something just like this at the last chapter
mke2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
Creating filesystem with 14653670 4k blocks and 3670016 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 74046714-8ce6-444b-b157-824aa0a0eaca
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208, 4096000, 7962624, 11239424
Allocating group tables: done
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (65536 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
Create folder
sudo mkdir /media/hd
sudo chmod 777 /media/hdCheck physical driver and volume UUID
sudo ls -lh /dev/disk/by-uuidIt will show something just like this
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 21 23:17 3961527c-ac15-44d4-8a19-dce4ffb0c47c -> ../../mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Aug 21 23:17 cdf5-4176 -> ../../mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Aug 21 23:17 74046714-8ce6-444b-b157-824aa0a0eaca -> ../../sda1
Check external hard drive and volume UUID
sudo blkid /dev/sda1It will show something just like this
/dev/sda1: UUID="74046714-8ce6-444b-b157-824aa0a0eaca" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="71ab09b5-01"
Editing fstab configuration file
sudo vim /etc/fstabAdd following configuration at the bottom of fstab
UUID=74046714-8ce6-444b-b157-824aa0a0eaca /media/hd ext4 defaults 0 2
It should be look like this
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
PARTUUID=3961527c-01 /boot vfat defaults 0 2
PARTUUID=3961527c-02 / ext4 defaults,noatime 0 1
UUID=74046714-8ce6-444b-b157-824aa0a0eaca /media/hd ext4 defaults 0 2
# a swapfile is not a swap partition, no line here
# use dphys-swapfile swap[on|off] for that
After reboot, it will mount as folder