OCZ Z-Drive R4 Installation & Quick Start Manual page 30

Use parted to put a partition on the drive. In this case a single partition using all capacity is used.
[root@x8dah oczeng]#
[root@x8dah oczeng]# parted /dev/sdc mkpart 1 ext2 0 1.6T
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
[root@x8dah oczeng]#
Use parted to display drive information and verify the partition was created
[root@x8dah oczeng]#
[root@x8dah oczeng]# parted /dev/sdc print
Model: ATA OCZ Z-DRIVE R4 R (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdc: 1600GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 1600GB 1600GB
[root@x8dah oczeng]#
Use mkfs to put a file system on the partition
[root@x8dah oczeng]#
[root@x8dah oczeng]# mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdc1
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=1 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
97681408 inodes, 390721910 blocks
19536095 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
11924 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616, 78675968,
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