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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