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+====== 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
+...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!