How to format, partition and mount additional hard disk expansion to the Nodegrid OS

Overview

With the exception of the NSR, additional hard drive expansion disks need to be formatted, partitioned, and mounted to the Nodegrid OS. Below here are the steps required to add expansion hard disk drives to GSR, HSR, BSR platforms.

#	Command CLI	Description & Example
1	lsblk -l	List block devices, lists information about all available or the specified block devices. List the partition tables Helps IDENTIFY your filesystem (USB) sdb1 8:17 1 460.3G 0 part /var/lib/libvirt/images
2	lsblk -f	Same as above, shows the files system type: Note ext4 sdb `-sdb1 ext4 467b6668-77bd-46d8-8310-196b8766b4ea 429G 0% /var/lib/libvirt
3	mount -l \| grep sd	Displays if /dev/sdb1 is mounted
4	umount /dev/sdb1	Unmounts /dev/sdb1
5	fdisk /dev/sdb d p n, Primary (take defaults) w	Partition utility Deletes existing partition if any. Print New partition (1) if only one partition needed. Write
6	fdisk -l	List the partition tables Note: /dev/sdb1
7	mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1	Formats partition
8	fdisk -l	verify /dev/sdb1
9	lsblk -l	Same
10	lsblk -f	check if ext4
11	mkdir /tmp/mnt	make a temp directory (test mount directory)
12	mount /dev/sdb1 /tmp/mnt	Mount /dev/sdb1 to /tmp/mnt (test mount)
13	vi /tmp/mnt/test.txt	i-insert then type “your text” (test file) ESC :wq! saves the file
14	umount /dev/sdb1	Unmounts /dev/sdb1 (umounts test)
15	mount /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/libvirt/images	mount /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/libvirt/images
16	more /var/lib/libvirt/images/test.txt	checks if “your text” was saved and now can be seen on images
17	vi /etc/fstab	Type i # To insert /dev/sdb1 /var/lib/libvirt/images ext4 defaults 0 1 ESC :wq! saves the file and mounts device upon reboot