Format new harddrive to ext4 filesystem and mount for use in linux

format_and_mount_new_disk.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Check which device you want to work with
fdisk  -l
# Format it with ext4 journaling filesystem. It has sufficiently low number of writes, so it is ok to use with SSDs. 
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda
# Create directory where the new disk will be mounted
mkdir /mnt/evo
# Mount the new disk to the newly created directory 
mount /dev/sda /mnt/evo/
# Check the available space on the newly mounted disk
df -h /mnt/evo