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Temporarily Mount Partition

mount

with sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/ssd-test

umount

with sudo umount /dev/sda1

Permanently Mount Partition

create Backup

sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.backup

edit /etc/fstab

with sudo nano /etc/fstab and insert UUID from blkid /dev/sda1 and insert new line

UUID=123456-abcd-......  /srv/ssd  ext4  defaults,nofail,x-systemd.device-timeout=10s  0  2
  • /srv/ssd is the permanent mount point
  • ext4 is partition type
  • defaults means standard partition
  • nofail means the system boots even if the mount is not active
  • device-timeout - doesn't wait too long during boot
  • 0 is default for old dump backup settings
  • 2 will be checked after all 1 - 0 means no check through fsck

mount

with sudo systemctl daemon-reload and then sudo mount -a

check results

lsblk
findmnt /srv/ssd
df -hT /srv/ssd

Create New Partition

What is currently on the ssd

lsblk -p -o NAME,SIZE,MODEL,FSTYPE,PARTTYPENAME,LABEL,UUID,MOUNTPOINTS /dev/sda

expected result:

/dev/sda
├─/dev/sda1   128M         Microsoft reserved partition
└─/dev/sda2 476.8G ntfs  Microsoft basic data

Create one big partition

  sudo parted --script --align optimal /dev/sda \
  mklabel gpt \
  mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 100%

check result with

lsblk -f /dev/sda   # and
blkid /dev/sda1

expected result like:

user@raspberrypi2b:~ $ lsblk -f /dev/sda
NAME   FSTYPE FSVER LABEL    UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
sda
└─sda1 ext4   1.0   ssd-data 4339f544-10cc-4d8b-a6a0-54425e97b932

user@raspberrypi2b:~ $ blkid /dev/sda1
/dev/sda1: LABEL="ssd-data" UUID="4339f544-10cc-4d8b-a6a0-54425e97b932" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="71766893-52af-4e1d-83bd-0b7b0dc171be"
user@raspberrypi2b:~ $