How to add a New Virtual Hard Disk to Ubuntu VM: Add a New Partition to an Ubuntu Virtual Machine

Adding a New Partition to an Ubuntu Virtual Machine: Add a New Virtual Hard Disk to Ubuntu VM Full Guide for Beginners

In this video, we walk you through the entire process of how to add a new partition to an Ubuntu virtual machine. Whether you're setting up a virtual server or managing disk partitions, this guide covers each step in detail. By the end of this tutorial, you'll know how to add a new partition to an Ubuntu virtual machine and add a new hard drive to Ubuntu, format it, create a mount point, and configure it to persist through reboots.

🔍 What You’ll Learn:
How to add a new partition to an Ubuntu virtual machine
How to check existing partitions in Ubuntu.
How to add a new hard disk to Ubuntu virtual machine settings.
How to partition a new disk using fdisk.
Steps to create, format, and mount a partition.
How to add new disk to Ubuntu VM.
How to make the mount permanent using the fstab file.

⚙️ Course Content:
Adding a new 50GB virtual hard disk with thin provisioning.
Configuring disk partitions with fdisk commands.
Formatting the partition with ext4 file system.
Creating a directory to mount the new partition.
Making the mount persistent by configuring fstab for automatic mounting after reboots.

📚 Who Should Watch:
System administrators managing storage on Ubuntu virtual machines.
IT professionals working with Ubuntu or other Linux-based virtual servers.
Anyone learning Linux partitioning, filesystem management, or server configuration basics.

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Ubuntu Server Administration Basics
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