Mount large disk on Linux and auto mount on startup

Look up detailed information of disks

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fdisk -lu

used to check whether the disk is available.

sample output:

Create new partition

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parted /dev/sdb

Formatting New Ext4 Partition

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mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Mount

For example, to create mount point under /mnt:

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mkdir /mnt/NewHdd
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/NewHdd

Find out the UUID of your hard drives.

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sudo blkid

edit /etc/fstab file.

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# <device>                                <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <fsck>
UUID=0a3407de-014b-458b-b5c1-848e92a327a3 /     ext noatime   0      1
UUID=f9fe0b69-a280-415d-a03a-a32752370dee none  swap   defaults  0      0
UUID=b411dc99-f0a0-4c87-9e05-184977be8539 /home ext4   noatime   0      2
  • <device> UUID={Your UUID}
  • <dir> the mount directory
  • <type> the file system type
  • <option> mount option
  • <dump> is checked by the dump utility. This field is usually set to 0, which disables the check
  • <fsck> the order of file system check at boot time. For the root device it should be 1. For other partitions it should be 2, or 0 to disable checking.