In this last part of this tutorial, I am going to show you how you can fuse together multiple drives allowing you to access content which is spread over multiple drives from one mount point. Next, create the mount points sudo mkdir /mnt/cloud1Īnd with that you should now be able to successfully access the content from the /dev/sda1 device under /mnt/cloud1. I use the mount points /mnt/cloud1 through /mnt/cloud3 to mount three drives but your location can obviously be any location that you like! I use the editor nano for this purpose sudo nano /etc/fstabĪdd a new line in this file containing the following information:īelow you can see my fstab file for three cloud storage points # Cloud storage TYPE='ext4' PARTLABEL='primary' PARTUUID='d37fecad-5236-4a52-be97-c11f8abeb8dd'Īnd open the fstab file to specify where you want your drives to be mounted upon boot. Get the UUID for the drive that you want to mount sudo blkid Make sure NOT to format the entire drive /dev/sda instead of the partition /dev/sda1 4.

Next, you need to format the previously created partition sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1 The operation has completed successfully. OK writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/sda. Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300):įinally, type “w” to write the changes to the drive and confirm by typing “Y” Command (? for help): w Next, create a new GPT partition table by typing sudo gdisk /dev/sdaĬreate a new partition by typing n followed by the partition number 1 Command (? for help): nĪnd agree to all further prompts First sector (34-11721045134, default = 2048) or : Note that this will make any data on your drive inaccessible! Absolutely make sure to have a backup before proceeding 2. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING PARTITIONS!! dev/sda) using sudo fdisk -lįound valid GPT with protective MBR using GPT.Īnd delete all existing partitions Command (? for help): dįinal checks complete. This step is optional if you are using new drives, but if you have previously used this hard drive in say a Windows machine, you first will need to remove the old partitions on the drive. A new (or used) hard drive which you have recently connected to your machine.

Additionally, I also show how to fuse together different hard drives, to make it them appear as one large hard drive which can be used e.g. First, I explain how to quickly partition new hard drives using gdisk, then I show you how to format a hard drive using the ext4 file system, and finally how to auto mount hard drives in Linux. This blog post describes how to partition and format a disk on Ubuntu 20.04.

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