1. Check disk drive and get the name ‘/dev/sdX’

    sudo fdisk -l
  2. Create n number of partitions

    sudo fdisk /dev/sdX
    # n, p, default, default, +size
    # do it n times
  3. Set all partions to xfs format

    for i in {1...n}; do sudo mkfs.xfs /dev/sdX$i; done
  4. Mount all the partitions

    sudo mkdir -p /mnt/minio/disk
  5. For persitance when reboot, copy all the text below to /etc/fstab

    /dev/sdX1 /mnt/minio/disk1 xfs defaults 0 0
    /dev/sdX2 /mnt/minio/disk2 xfs defaults 0 0
    /dev/sdX3 /mnt/minio/disk3 xfs defaults 0 0
    /dev/sdX4 /mnt/minio/disk4 xfs defaults 0 0
  6. Validate the partition

    df -h