Linux stuff.md

Create partition on empty drive

• Start fdisk - change /dev/sda2 with your harddrive.

sudo fdisk /dev/sda

• Select p to view all partitions.
• Select n to create a new partition.
• Type p for primary partition.
• Enter which number partition the partition is on the harddrive. Typically 1.
• If the partition needs to fill up all the space on the harddrive, just press enter at start sector and end sector.
• Select w to write changes to the disk.
• Reboot.
• Make the filesystem with mkfs

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2p1

Automagically mounting the new partition

• Remember to create a mounting point, eg. /mnt/hdd.
• Edit /etc/fstab

sudo nano /etc/fstab

• Add a new mounting point at the bottom (new line)
• Type in like below - partition, mounting point, partition type, flags, fs_freq, fs_passno
• /dev/sda2p1 /mnt/hdd ext4 rw,defaults 0 0
• Save and exit fstab
• Test if the new mount works by mounting all from fstab

sudo mount -a

• This shouldn't produce any errors, and this automatically mount the harddrive - even after reboot.

If you need to unmount the partition again:

sudo umount /mnt/hdd