lsblk
will list available device
parted /dev/sdd
considered device “sdd” from lsblk output
(parted) mklabel gpt
(parted) mkpart primary ext3 0 100%
(parted) print
(parted) quit
mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdd1
this command will format this hard disk into ext3 file system as we instruct by parted command
mkdir /home/data
mounting point directory creating
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdd1 /home/data
mounting formatted hard disk into target directory
blkid
try to find ID of new hard disk to write into fstab so that after restart our hard disk will mount automatically
sample output of blkid
/dev/sdd1: UUID="20e4b16b-4d4c-4053-b6f4-a2c103f2db2f" TYPE="ext3" PARTLABEL="primary" PARTUUID="33658d68-726f-4398-992f-2aaafebe17ff"
vi /etc/fstab
give an entry for our new hard disk at the end of this file
example entry
UUID=20e4b16b-4d4c-4053-b6f4-a2c103f2db2f /home/data ext3 nofail 0 0