Using systemd-mount and fstab

In this section, we'll learn about making sure that our newly configured disks appear on boot and how to run a test to see if it'll come up at boot time.

For this, we'll use the traditional method of adding a disk to the fstab file, and we'll also use systemd-mount.

You could use the following to directly reconfigure /dev/sdb as a single partition, formatted to ext4:

$ printf "g\nn\n\n\n\nw\n" | sudo fdisk /dev/sdb && sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1

Getting ready

In this section, we're going to use both our sdb and sdc drives.

If you have rebuilt your VM, have a go at the previous sections to end up with a drive that has a simple filesystem atop a partition...