I’m playing around with proxmox and after cloning one template I’m always including a new disk to manage all data. To do that, this is the process:
Create the directory to mount
That’s pretty easy with:
mkdir /home/user/disk
Identify the disk
Let’s identify the disk:
sudo fdisk -l
In my case:
Disk /dev/sda: 1.46 TiB, 1610612736000 bytes, 3145728000 sectors
Disk model: QEMU HARDDISK
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Note that we want the identifier /dev/sda
Create partition table
As no partitions are listed, we need to create a partition table. To do that:
sudo fdisk /dev/sda
It says that the disk has no partition table:
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.37.2).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Device does not contain a recognized partition table.
Created a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x4816b5aa.
Now we use g to create a GPT partition
Command (m for help): g
Created a new GPT disklabel (GUID: 31AD9BF2-3239-FE4D-BF91-C85B5C7A80AA).
At this point we’re going to create a new partition selecting n and then selecting the default for:
- partition number
- first sector
- last sector (if we want to use full space)
Command (m for help): n
Partition number (1-128, default 1): 1
First sector (2048-3145727966, default 2048):
Last sector, +/-sectors or +/-size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-3145727966, default 3145727966):
Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux filesystem' and of size 1.5 TiB.
Last but not least, use wto write the paritions table to the disk
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
Create the FS
That’s easy also with the command
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
Let’s mount it
sudo mount /dev/sda1 /home/user/disk
Automount on startup
Just append the following line to your /etc/fstab
/dev/sda1 /home/note/media ext4 defaults 0 1