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VirtualBox: Adding A 32 GB VirtualDisk
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VirtualBox: Adding A 32 GB VirtualDisk





Storage Device Controller: SATA





Create Disk Image File





Virtual Hard Disk File Type
















Done





Crosscheck /dev/sdb

lsblk




Partitioning 32GB

DEVICE TYPE SIZE
/dev/sdb1 ext4 10 MB
/dev/sdb2 ext4 the rest

# START: Thu 29 Jun 2023 09:00
sync
# CLEAN OLD DISK
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M count=1
sync
# SFDISK is a script-oriented tool for partitioning.
sfdisk /dev/sdb <<< "
label: dos
device: /dev/sdb
unit: sectors
sector-size: 512
/dev/sdb1: type=83, start= 2048, size=20480
/dev/sdb2: type=83, start=22528
"





Crosscheck Again /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb2

lsblk





VirtualDisk Format /dev/sdb1

mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/sdb1





VirtualDisk Format /dev/sdb2

mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/sdb2





Mounting /mnt/cbkadal

mkdir -pv /mnt/cbkadal

mount -v  /dev/sdb1 /mnt/cbkadal/

df /dev/sdb1





Mounting /mnt/lfs

mkdir -pv /mnt/lfs

mount -v  /dev/sdb2 /mnt/lfs/

df /dev/sdb2





Add to file /etc/fstab

/dev/sdb1  /mnt/cbkadal ext4   defaults   0  2
/dev/sdb2  /mnt/lfs     ext4   defaults   0  3





UUID

In file “/etc/fstab”; replace “/dev/sdb1” and “/dev/sdb2” with its UUID. To find out UUID, run (root):

blkid

After replacement, file “/etc/fstab” should look like:







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