lsblk

NAME          MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE  MOUNTPOINTS
sda             8:0    1 976.6G  0 disk  
- sda1          8:1    1  47.8M  0 part  
nvme0n1       259:0    0 465.8G  0 disk  
- nvme0n1p1   259:1    0   512M  0 part  /boot/efi
- nvme0n1p2   259:2    0     4G  0 part  /recovery
- nvme0n1p3   259:3    0 457.3G  0 part  /
- nvme0n1p4   259:4    0     4G  0 part  
--cryptswap 253:0    0     4G  0 crypt [SWAP]
nvme1n1       259:5    0 465.8G  0 disk  
--nvme1n1p1   259:6    0 465.8G  0 part  

	# The sd[x] blocks are the USB flash drive.
	# The nvme are the insternal non-volital flash.
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	ls -l /dev/sd*

brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Feb 20 05:44 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 1 Feb 20 05:44 /dev/sda1

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	sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 976.56 GiB, 1048576000000 bytes, 2048000000 sectors
Disk model: UDisk           
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xfa2cb833

Device     Boot Start        End    Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1        2048 2047999999 2047997952 976.6G 83 Linux

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	mount | grep sda
# nothing - sda1 is not mounted

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	sudo mkfs.ext4 -L monolith /dev/sda1

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	grep sda /var/log/syslog
	tail -f /var/log/syslog


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