November 11, 2025
Create drive partition with fdisk on Debian
Start fdisk on the desired drive
sudo fdisk /dev/sdX
press g to create a new GPT table
press n to create a new partition
Partition number, press enter to set the default value
First sector, enter the default
Last sector, enter the default
press w to write changes
Creating filesystem
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdcX1
Mount the drive
sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/
df -h
Check permisions
ls -ld /mnt/
set the owner to be the current user:
sudo chown -R $USER:$USER /mnt/mydisk