====== Create partitions using CLI on linux ======
First and foremost:

**!! WARNING !!**

These commands are EXAMPLES. DELETING partitions, MODIFYING and FORMATTING filesystems destroys data and/or may prevent your machine from booting.  Make backups.  Use at own risk.   Try on a machine you don't mind losing all data on. caveat admin.

To quickly set up a drive up as a single ext4 partition...
View detected devices of class "DISK"
<code shell>lshw -C disk</code>
View existing partition table(s)
<code shell>fdisk -l</code>
Edit the partition table for my chosen device (in this case, "sdx")
<code shell>fdisk /dev/sdx</code>
Within FDISK, press:
<code>
d ...to delete the current partition
n ...to create a new partition
p ...to specify it as a PRIMARY partition
1 ...to set it as the 1ST primary partition
w ...to write the changes.
</code>
Display the new partition table:
<code shell>fdisk -l</code>
Format the new partition's filesystem as type ext4
<code shell>mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdx1</code>
Create a new directory where the new drive will mount into:
<code shell>
mkdir /storage
mount /dev/sdx1 /storage
</code>

TUNING
Remove reserved blocks (i.e. set to 0%), since this drive is just for user data
<code shell>tune2fs -m 0 /dev/sdx1</code>
Since server is on UPS, Set write-back so apps don't wait for actual disk writes
<code shell>tune2fs -o journal_data_writeback /dev/sdx1</code>
Mount at boot up using /etc/fstab and also set write-back policy
<code shell>vi /etc/fstab</code>
Find (or add) the relevant line in fstab for your drive. Parameters in fstab are separated by white space, for example the drive described above might appear as:
<code shell>/dev/sdx1 /storage ext4 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1</code>
  * The first parameter identifies the partition (either by /dev/ or a long UUID);
  * The second parameter is the path the partition will be mounted to;
  * Third is the filesystem type;
  * The fourth parameter contains the options;
  * Fifth is the dump schedule for backups; and,
  * The sixth parameter is pass-number (used to control fsck order).
Change the options (4th parameter) to:
<code shell>noatime,nodiratime,data=writeback,barrier=0,nobh,errors=remount-ro</code>
Reboot to check that everything went well.
Remember these commands are destructive! Have backups and be careful!