Configuring a blank disk and mounting it

In this section, we'll use CLI tools to partition and format one of our disks (without LVM), talking about GPT and MBR while we do so. We'll then mount our disk at /home on our system.

Getting ready

If you're using the supplied Vagrantfile for this chapter, you'll have a system with two blank disks connected. If you're using your own solution, now would be the time to add a couple of blank disks.

Connect to your VM and ensure you can see /dev/sdb; if you can't, double check your Vagrant setup:

$ ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8,  0 Sep  9 15:27 /dev/sda
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8,  1 Sep  9 15:27 /dev/sda1
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8,  2 Sep  9 15:27...