Preparing Hard Drives for Chia

gistfile1.txt

Maybe this is a good way to do it, maybe it isn't - this is my current method. 

### List all drives and partitions
`fdisk -l`

### Delete partitions
`gdisk /dev/sdX`
`d`
`1`
`d` (do d until all partitions are deleted)

### Create new partitions
`gdisk /dev/sdX`
`n`
`1`
(accept defaults for the rest)
`w`

### Format with ext4
`mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX1`

### Get rid of reserved space
`tune2fs -m0 /dev/partition`

### Create mount point
`mkdir -p /plots/USBXTB-Y`

### Find blkid of drive
`blkid`

### Add to fstab
# XTB SATA USB Y
UUID=xxxxxxxx-0b60-4f80-ac38-1c287eba87e8       /plots/USBXTB-Y ext4 noatime,data=writeback,nofail,nofail 0 0

### Create plots and tmp directories
`mkdir -p /plots/USBXTB-Y/chia-plots/tmp1`
`mkdir -p /plots/USBXTB-Y/chia-plots/tmp2`
`mkdir -p /plots/USBXTB-Y/chia-plots/final_plots`