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09 · Storage (CLI)

List block devices

maas admin block-devices read <SYSID> | jq -r '.[] | [.id, .name, .model, .size, .used_for] | @tsv' | column -t

Choose a boot disk and set GPT

maas admin block-device set-boot-disk <SYSID> &lt;DEVID&gt;
maas admin block-device update <SYSID> &lt;DEVID&gt; partition_table=gpt

Create partitions

# 512M EFI, 20G root, remainder home
maas admin partitions create <SYSID> &lt;DEVID&gt; size=536870912 bootable=true
maas admin partitions create <SYSID> &lt;DEVID&gt; size=$((20*1024*1024*1024))
maas admin partitions create <SYSID> &lt;DEVID&gt;

Filesystems and mount points

maas admin filesystem create <SYSID> &lt;PARTID2&gt; fstype=ext4 mount_point=/
maas admin filesystem create <SYSID> &lt;PARTID3&gt; fstype=ext4 mount_point=/home

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