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title: "Quickly Setting up a Storage Device"
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date: 2020-01-12T21:43:26-05:00
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draft: false
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tags: [ "linux", "storage" ]
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---
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This post exists mostly to aid myself for when I buy new drives for my home server. It's a quick and easy way to create an ext4 filesystem over the entire drive.
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To go through this post, you'll need to know the name of your drive.
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```bash
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sudo fdisk -l
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```
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or
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```bash
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lsblk
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```
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The drive is most likely one of the larger devices with no partitions set. It'll likely be of the format `/dev/sdX`.
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To begin, we'll have to set the label. Here we'll use `gpt`.
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```bash
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sudo parted /dev/sdX mklabel gpt
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```
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Then we can create a primary partition formatted with ext4 covering the entire device.
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```bash
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sudo parted -a opt /dev/sdX mkpart primary ext4 0% 100%
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```
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Now we can let `ext4` format the drive,
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```bash
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sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX1
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```
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I like to set up my mount points to be `/mnt/data/N` where N is the number of the drive I'm working with.
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```bash
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sudo mkdir /mnt/data/N
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```
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To temporarily mount it, just to make sure it works you can run
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```bash
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sudo mount /dev/sdX1 /mnt/data/N
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```
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You can unmount it with `umount`
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```bash
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sudo umount /dev/sdX1
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```
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When you're ready to make it permanent, we'll have to edit the `/etc/fstab` file. We should note the drive by its UUID so that it's not dependent on the slot the hard drive sits in. You can find it by running this command
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```bash
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lsblk -o UUID /dev/sdX1
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```
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Now you can append your `/etc/fstab` with the following:
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```bash
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UUID=uuid-here /mnt/data/N ext4 defaults 0 0
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```
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