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Formatting a disk in Alpine.md

Formatting a disk in Alpine

Use fdisk -l to find the correct index

RUN fdisk /dev/sda

Delete the existing filesystem d

Create a new partition n

Primary partition p

Partition number 1

Set the system type to Linux t 83

Press return to skip the start and end cylinders

Write the changes to disk w

Reboot

Reboot for the kernel to detect the new partition

Format the partition as EXT4

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

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