Partition and Mount

Make a partition and mount it to directory

Generate Partition

Let's assume that we have a disk named /dev/sdb, then make partition with the disk.

sudo fdisk /dev/sdb

This will bring up the fdisk utility. Then we are going to generate partition: Just press n and press enter (if you do not want any options and are willing to use the whole disk)

Command (m for help): n
Partition number (1-128, default 1):
First sector (34-1953525134, default 2048):
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G,T,P} (2048-1953525134, default 1953525134):

Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux filesystem' and of size 931.5 GiB.

Then use w to write information to disk

Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.

Format Partition

Format partition using mkfs:

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1

This will generate file system of /dev/sdb1 as ext4. If you would like other file systems, use this accordingly.

Mount Partition

Once generating partition and formatting a partition was done, it is time for mounting. Let's assume that we would like to mount partition/dev/sdb1 to /home2 directory.

mkdir /home2
sudo mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 /home2

This will mount /dev/sdb1 to /home2 directory.