Formatting a drive in linux

Open the parted utility and then you will work inside (parted) that.

`sudo parted /dev/sdb`

Now you are in "parted"

Create a partition

- For MBR

`mklabel msdos`

- For GPT

`mklabel gpt`

The basic syntax for partition command

-`mkpart 'partition type' 'file system' start end`

If you want all space of the drive (one partition)

`mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 100%`

If you want more than one partition

`mkpart primary ext4 1MiB 2GB`

If you want to create another partition, use

`mkpart primary ext4 2GB 3GB`

To see the partitions

`print`

 ? Help?

  `isblk`