Reference:
- https://www.howtogeek.com/106873/how-to-use-fdisk-to-manage-partitions-on-linux/
- https://gist.github.com/keithmorris/b2aeec1ea947d4176a14c1c6a58bfc36
- https://askubuntu.com/a/985273
List logical disks and partitions
sudo fdisk -l
Partition the disk
sudo fdisk /dev/sdb
- Press
n
to create a partition - Press
p
orl
to create primary or logical partitions - Press
w
to write your changes orq
to quit
Format the partition
sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1
sudo mkfs -t ext4 -N 2000000 /dev/sdb1
– This will manually set the number of inodes to 2,000,000
Mount disk
mount
– Shows what is mountedmkdir /mnt/mydrive
- chown <your desired user>:<group> /mnt/mydrive
mount -t ext4 /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mydrive
Get disk’s UUID
ls -al /dev/disk/by-uuid/
orblkid
Mount at boot
Add the following line to your /etc/fstab
file adjusting the UUID to your device’s id and the directory to where you want to mount:
UUID=811d3de0-ca6b-4b61-9445-af2e306d9999 /mnt/mydrive ext4 defaults
,dmask=006,fmask=113,uid=1000,gid=33 0 0
mount -a - remounts filesystems from /etc/fstab
Add shortcut to Deck
Create a .desktop file (say custom-filemanager.desktop) in ~/.local/share/applications. You can do this by running the following command in Terminal
touch ~/.local/share/applications/custom-filemanager.desktop
Open the .desktop file using a text-editor, for example by running
gedit ~/.local/share/applications/custom-filemanager.desktop
Add the following lines to the file:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=File Manager
Comment=Access and organize files
Keywords=folder;manager;explore;disk;filesystem;
Exec=nautilus --new-window %U
Icon=org.gnome.Nautilus
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;GTK;Utility;Core;FileManager;
Actions=new-window;open-downloads;
[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=New Window
Exec=nautilus --new-window
[Desktop Action open-downloads]
Name=Open my Downloads folder
Exec=nautilus /home/YOUR-USER-NAME/Downloads
Replace YOUR-USER-NAME by your user-name in the last line.
Save the file.
Click on “Activities” and search for “File Manager”. It should appear.
Right click on the “File Manager” and select “Add to Favourites”. It should be added to the dock.