Adding and formatting new disk is possible in Linux.

Here the basics. You can use fdisk command.

Type fdisk – l

The other way to see presented disks in Linux system is to type  ls /dev/sd*

Now you know which disks and partitions exist on the Linux system, and what you would like to format.

The tool mkfs is enough to progress simple formatting. For example to format your partition on disk is necessary

mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1