====== Create partition and assign uuid ====== # create partition $ sudo fdisk /dev/sdb m w # make filesystem $ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1 # generate uuid $ uuidgsudo en 5cf9e7ae-a4ba-4d2b-8146-da3a207fbab5 # assign uuid to partition $ sudo tune2fs /dev/sdb1 -U 5cf9e7ae-a4ba-4d2b-8146-da3a207fbab5 # check partitions ids $ blkid /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: UUID="5cf9e7ae-a4ba-4d2b-8146-da3a207fbab5" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="2c6a7a3a-01" # now, you can mount int in fstab /dev/disk/by-uuid/5cf9e7ae-a4ba-4d2b-8146-da3a207fbab5 /shared ext4 defaults,noacl 0 0