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Disk partitioning allow a hard drive to be

divided into multiple logical storage units called


as partition.
Separating a disk into partition allow
administrator to can use different partition to
perform different functions.
Linux maintain disk naming convention for
SATA ,PATA and Virtual Disk as follows…
DISK 1 - /dev/sda DISK 2 - /dev/sdb

Partition 1 /dev/sda1 Partition 1 /dev/sdb1


Partition 2 /dev/sda2 Partition 2 /dev/sdb2
Partition 3 /dev/sda3 Partition 3 /dev/sdb3
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DISK 1 - /dev/hda DISK 2 - /dev/hdb

Partition 1 /dev/hda1 Partition 1 /dev/hdb1


Partition 2 /dev/hda2 Partition 2 /dev/hdb2
Partition 3 /dev/hdb3
Partition 3 /dev/hda3
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DISK 1 - /dev/vda DISK 2 - /dev/vdb

Partition 1 /dev/vda1 Partition 1 /dev/vdb1


Partition 2 /dev/vda2 Partition 2 /dev/vdb2
Partition 3 /dev/vda3 Partition 3 /dev/vdb3
. .
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Partition divide into three types
1. Primary Partitions
2. Extended Partitions
3. Logical Partitions
The number of partition was limited from the
very beginning and we can create maximum
four partitions. These partitions called primary
partitions.
Extended partition use to overcome limit of
primary four partition, if we want more than
four partition then we can create one of the
extended partition within a primary partition.
A Logical partition is a partition that created
inside the extended Partition.
A file system is the method and structure that
an operating system use to keep files on disk or
partition, that is a way of how files are stored
on the disk.

Eg. ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs etc.


This is the first Linux file system. It was used in
early versions of Linux. It has been removed
from RHEL.
This is the second generation of EXT file
system.
It provides very basic features of file system.
It was developed in 1980.
It was the default file system before RHEL5.
It has been deprecated in RHEL7 and would be
removed in next version.
This is third generation of EXT file system. This
was the default file system in RHEL5. It includes
several enhanced features.

 It supports file systems up to 16TiB in size.


 It supports file up to 2TiB in size.
 It supports up to 32000 subdirectories.
This is fourth generation of EXT file system.
This was the default file system in RHEL6.
 It supports file systems up to 1EiB.
 It supports file up 16TiB in size.
 It supports unlimited directories.
 It uses a series of contiguous physical blocks
on hard disk known as extents. The extents
are used to improve the performance of very
large files.
This file system was developed by Silicon
Graphics for their version of UNIX.
Later it was adopted by most Linux
distributions including RHEL. This is the default
file system in RHEL 7/8.
This file system is based on 64-bit extent. It
uses journaling for metadata operations. It
supports file systems and files of sizes up to
8EiB.
1. For Show Available Disk :
#fdisk -l

2. For Show Specific Disk


#fdisk -l /dev/sdb

3. For Create New Partition


#fdisk /dev/sdb

4. For update partition table without reboot system


#partprobe /dev/sdb
5. Create file system on partition (Format)
#mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
or
#mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sdb1

6. For mount disk partition


#mkdir /data
#mount /dev/sdb1 /data

7. For permanent mount disk partition


#vim /etc/fstab
/dev/sdb1 /data ext4 defaults 0 0
:wq
For mount all partition listed in fstab file
#mount -a
For show mounted partition
#mount
Or
#df -h

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