# mounting new disk on Ubuntu

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/mounting-new-disk-on-ubuntu/22683>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [September 30, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mounting-new-disk-on-ubuntu/22683 "2016-09-30T05:55:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![jude\_m](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jude\_m](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jude_m)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 5:55am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/mounting-new-disk-on-ubuntu/22683/1 "2016-09-30T05:55:31Z")

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Hello All,

I have added a new disk to my Ubuntu machine, I would like to automate the below step using Ansible

1. partition the new disk with fdisk
2. format the disk as ext4
3. mount the disk

Any help here is greatly appreciate

Thanks,

- J