Find the drive name:
fdisk -l
*In this example we will use /dev/sdc
Now access parted to prepare the drive for formatting and mounting:
sudo parted /dev/sdc
Now set the following:
(parted) mklabel gpt (parted) unit TB (parted) mkpart primary 0.00TB 4.00TB (Changing 4.00TB to the size of your drive) (parted) quit
Format the drive as ext4:
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdc1 (note the "1" now)
Set the reserved blocks percentage:
sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdc1
Create a mount point for the new drive:
mkdir /mnt/mountpoint
Mount the drive:
mount -t ext4 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/mountpoint/
Now we add the mountpoint to fstab so that the drive is available on reboot:
sudo vim /etc/fstab
Add the following to the bottom of fstab:
/dev/sdc1 /mnt/mountpoint ext4 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
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