sudo -i<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This command will grant you the rights of a power user, so you don\u2019t have to write the command sudo at the beginning of every command line.<\/p>\n At first, we list all the disks recognized by our system using the fdisk command:<\/p>\n fdisk -l<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In our example, two hard drives are plugged into our server: \/dev\/sda<\/strong>, our system disk which amongst other things contains the operating system, and \/dev\/sdb<\/strong>, an additional 50 GiB hard drive which we are about to mount in our system. The naming of those disks can vary.<\/p>\n First of all, we need to create a partition as well as a partition table. Of course, it is possible to create more than one partition on a disk, but in our example, we want to use the whole capacity of the drive for one partition. For the partitioning we use cfdisk<\/strong>, the graphical version of fdisk<\/strong>:<\/p>\n cfdisk \/dev\/sdb<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n If there is no existing partition table on the disk, yet, a menu pops up:<\/p>\n For our example, we choose dos<\/strong>, which writes a MBR partition table<\/a> to the disk (for disks larger than 2 TB, we would choose GPT, otherwise we would not be able to make use of the entire available disk space). After that, the main menu of cfdisk <\/strong>opens:<\/p>\n Here we can create our partition(s). We create a 50 GiB partition by entering 50G <\/strong>and confirming with the Enter-Key<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In the next dialogue, we choose primary <\/strong>to create a primary partition<\/a>.<\/p>\n We confirm with Write <\/strong>and type in yes <\/strong>to finish creating the partition.<\/p>\n Now we have a partition, but we cannot store data on it yet, as we still need to create a file system<\/a> on it. We choose Quit <\/strong>to leave cfdisk <\/strong>and check if the partition has been created properly. To do so, we once again use fdisk:<\/p>\n fdisk -l<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Our new partition is now listed as\u00a0\/dev\/sdb1<\/strong>. Thus, everything went as expected. mkfs.ext4 \/dev\/sdb1<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The formatting is now finished and the hard disk is now prepared for utilisation. Next, we create a folder in which we mount the partition. All data we move or create in this folder after the whole procedure will be stored on our new hard drive. In our example, we use the name datastore <\/strong>for our folder, but of course you are free to choose any name you like. With the following command, we create the new folder:<\/p>\n mkdir \/datastore<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n In order to mount the partition in the folder we just created, we type the following in our command line:<\/p>\n mount \/dev\/sdb1 \/datastore<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Our partition is now mounted in \/datastore<\/strong>. In order to automatically mount the partition after a reboot, we add a line in the configuration file \/etc\/fstab<\/strong>. But before we do so, we need to find out the UUID<\/a> of our partition.<\/p>\n blkid \/dev\/sdb1<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"fdisk\"](\"https:\/\/contabo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fdisk.png\")
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\nNow, we’re going to format the partition with a file system. In Linux, we choose ext4<\/a> <\/strong>by default.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n