Keeping the site online is challenging, with everyone blocking Ads 😔. nixCraft is a one-person show, and many of you use Adblocker. 🥺 Was this helpful? Please add a comment to show your appreciation or feedback. Join the nixCraft community via RSS Feed or Email Newsletter. He wrote more than 7k+ posts and helped numerous readers to master IT topics. Vivek Gite is the founder of nixCraft, the oldest running blog about Linux and open source. For more info see the following manual pages using the help command or man command: LABEL=/backup /disk1 ext3 defaults 1 2 Summing upĪnd that is how your hard disk format is done under Linux. You can use label name instead of partition name to mount disk using /etc/fstab: For example, if you want to label the new partition /backup, enter

You can label the partition using e2label. Open the /etc/fstab file, enter:Īppend as follows for ext3 file system: /dev/sdb1 /disk1 ext3 defaults 1 2 Save and close the file when using vim/vi text editor by pressing the Esc+ :x+ Enter keys. Make sure our partition automatically mounted at boot time. # grep -w '^/dev/sdb1' /proc/mounts Step#4 : Update /etc/fstab file One can use the grep command or egrep command to verify mounted partitions on Linux. Verify using the df command or mount command:

# mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1 Step#3 : Mount the new disk using mount commandįirst create a mount point /disk1 using the mkdir command and use mount command to mount /dev/sdb1, enter: To format Linux partitions using ext2fs on the new disk (ext3):įor ext4 file system which is now recommended, run: Step#2 : Format the new disk using mkfs command

t– change a partition type (for example, choose RAID or ext3 or ext4 or fat32).

w– write the new partition table and exit.

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