Linux Partitions
Creating Partition and Filesystem in Linux Introduction This post describes how to create a partitons in linux and use it. Creating a new partition for use is a 4 step process. You identify a disk and create a partition using fdisk You create a file system on that disk and assign a label You create an entry in /etc/fstab to make partition persistant accrose reboot You mount the partition for access to the user. Lets start with creating a partition from a disk. Creating Partition and filesystem In my system I have /dev/sda as primary device and following are the different partitions [root@10.176.87.179]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 2.9G 350M 2.4G 13% / /dev/sda7 487M 18M 444M 4% /h...