If you find yourself working with Windows Containers, there might be a need to utilize data drives etc from Managed Disks.
In order to support this, we can leverage PowerShell to run a few management tasks from an Azure Resource Management template.
Get-Disk | Where partitionstyle -eq 'raw' | Initialize-Disk -PartitionStyle MBR -PassThru | New-Partition -AssignDriveLetter -UseMaximumSize | Format-Volume -FileSystem NTFS -NewFileSystemLabel "datadisk" -Confirm:$false
The Get-Disk commandlet lists all of the disks attached to the machine (including raw unformatted drives).
The pipe into the Where commandlet just searches for drives that aren’t assigned a drive letter.
The Initialize-Disk commandlet sets a disk up using GPT or MBR with the -PartitionStyle flag.
The New-Partition commandlet assigns a drive letter and partitions it to the disk manager.
The last commandlet Format-Volume formats the drive as NTFS and puts a label on it.
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