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Mount Second drive

$ sudo apt update -y
$ sudo apt install parted
$ sudo parted -l | grep Error

Output
Error: /dev/sda: unrecognized disk label

$ lsblk

Output
NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda      8:0    0   100G  0 disk
vda    253:0    0    20G  0 disk
└─vda1 253:1    0    20G  0 part /

Partition the New Drive

$ udo mkfs.ext4 -L storage /dev/vda1
$ sudo lsblk --fs
$ sudo lsblk -o NAME,FSTYPE,LABEL,UUID,MOUNTPOINT

Output
NAME   FSTYPE LABEL         UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                           
└─sda1 ext4   datapartition 4b313333-a7b5-48c1-a957-d77d637e4fda

hdd

MOUNT Hard Drive

$ sudo mkdir -p /home/storage
$ sudo mount -o defaults /dev/vda1 /home/storage

$ sudo nano /etc/fstab

# /dev/sda1 /mnt/data ext4 defaults 0 2
# UUID=4b313333-a7b5-48c1-a957-d77d637e4fda /home/storage ext4 defaults 0 2
UUID=2b318833-a7b5-48c1-a957-d77d637e4fda /home/storage ext4 defaults 0 2

$ sudo mount -a

$ df -h -x tmpfs

$ echo "success" | sudo tee /home/storage/test_file
$ cat /home/storage//test_file
    Output
    success
$ sudo rm /home/storage/test_file


Posted : Tuesday 4th of November 2025 @ 09:35 PM— Tags : second