Changes

One of the first problems encountered by users these days is that they run out of disk space to store data. Fortunately disk space is now one of the cheapest of all physical technology commodities. In this chapter we will look at the steps necessary to integrate a new disk drive into an Ubuntu system.

We now have a new disk installed, it is visible to Ubuntu and we have configured a Linux partition on the disk. The next step is to create a Linux file system on the partition so that the operating system can use it to store files and data. The easiest way to create a file system on a partition is to use the mkfs.ext4 utility which takes as arguments the label and the partition device:

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sudo mkfs.ext4 -L /photos /dev/sdb1

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