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  1. Add Drive

From the Oracle VM Virtual Box Manager window, select the Virtual Box and click on Settings.

Go to Storage, select hard drive and click on Add a hard disk.

Click on Create New Disk.

  1. List Partitions
fdisk -l

Iidentify which hard drive you need to partition

fdisk /dev/sdb
  1. Format the Partition
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
  1. Mount the partition
mount /dev/sdb1 /path/to/mount
  1. Add fstab entry
$ nano /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb1               /path/to/mount           ext4    defaults        1 2