On 2025-08-31, Tom Browder <[email protected]> wrote: > > Does this bash fragment look safe for using bash vars for the first disk: > > SDX=sda > sudo parted /dev/${SDX} mklabel gpt > sudo parted -a opt /dev/${SDX} mkpart primary ext4=0% 100% > sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/${SDX}
The mkfs step must target the partition, not the disk. Formatting the raw disk (/dev/sda) after creating a partition table means you’re ignoring the table you just wrote, effectively making the partition table useless. > Thanks. > > -Tom > >
