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Formatting partitions
After you 
create your partition layout for your new disk and you're satisfied with it, 
you're ready to format it. Now that I've created a partition layout on the new disk, 
the output of 
sudo fdisk -l
 will be different:

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Figure 9.6: Another example of sudo fdisk -l, after creating a partition
Notice that now, we have the partition 
/dev/sdb1
 added, and visible in the output. 
Now, we can go ahead and format it. To do so, we take care of that with the 
mkfs
 
command. This command is run with a specific syntax that entails typing 
mkfs
 along 
with a period (
.
), followed by the type of filesystem you would like to format the 
target as. The following example will format 
/dev/sdb1
 as ext4:
sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
Your output will look similar to mine in the following screenshot:
Figure 9.7: Formatting a volume using the ext4 filesystem

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Managing Storage Volumes