Setup Your Disks

you will want to verify you have at lease 400gb avaiable on your machine using df h here you see 940g in my / mount point on drive /dev/sdc/ the ubuntu installer will default to 100g and leave much of your space unused unless you tell it what to do if your machine has 2 disks, we want to separate the ledger to the larger disk note if you change ledger to a separate drive, you will need to modify your ledger dir in other commands and locations later in the guide process to mount a new directory run lsblk to see your storage devices on your system if you have a drive not being used, you can run sudo mkfs t ext4 /dev/sdd but adjusting for your device name then you can make your ledger dir in some folder such as sudo mkdir p /mnt/ledger and change ownership to your non privledged user sudo chown r xand\ xand /mnt/ledger and then mount it to your spare device sudo mount /dev/sdd /mnt/ledger now anything you put in the /mnt/ledger directory will be held in the additional drive (possibly a faster nvme drive)