Comments on: How to Create a New Ext4 File System (Partition) in Linux

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Mon, 13 Sep 2021 13:08:20 +0000

People for whom these instructions would be beneficial do not use servers. OTOH, people who use or deal with servers have this procedure memorized.

Judging by the questions and comments so far, it seems that the posters have very little idea of what is being done. By using a GUI tool like GParted, they would SEE what is happening with the disk they are trying to partition rather than having to imagine it.

I am all for using CLI but when it is actually an improvement on GUI. This is 2021 and, in the 30 years of Linux’s existence, many CLI procedures have been released as GUI tools. For some reason, Linux tech writers are pushing the command line as if it was The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread. Sure, CLI may be l33t but it certainly IS NOT inviting and encouraging to new Linux users. How many articles are there extolling the virtues of MS-DOS or even the current Windows command line?

By: test

test — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 15:22:02 +0000

In reply to DrSpaced.

0% and 100% as start and end work.

Looks like the author copied some really old instructions. mklabel gpt should be your go-to today, otherwise, you will get errors with disks over 2.5ishTB

By: Jordi Barcelona

Jordi Barcelona — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 08:52:43 +0000

Hello, I don’t know how Ravi Saive found out the size of the partition, but I’ve found you can use percent to size the partition (you can reply 100% to the question End? and it uses the whole free space available)

By: DrSpaced

DrSpaced — Mon, 25 May 2020 15:14:57 +0000

Another thing that is missing is what sector size should be considered (physical or logical). In this example, it did not matter because both were the same.

However, in my case the two are not the same. Which to choose? I would think that it is the logical sector size, but if we are dealing with /dev/sda (in my case), perhaps this indicates the use of the physical sector size.

By: DrSpaced

DrSpaced — Thu, 21 May 2020 03:30:16 +0000

This would be a wonderful tutorial if I knew how you got the size for the new partition. It seems that you pulled the number 20190 out of thin air! How do I get the right number if I want to use the whole disk?