As you can see, we currently own one disk named sda (for a SATA/SCSI hard drive) that currently has only one partition. On Linux, partitions are named with the name of the hard drive followed by an index from 1 to the maximum number of partitions available on the disk. In this case...
The partitions on each disk are represented by appending a decimal number to the disk name. For example,sda1is the first partition in the first SCSI hard drive,sda2represents the second partition of the first disk drive, sdb1 is the first partition in the second hard drive and so on. In...
In this section, we will explain how to partition a storage disk in Linux using theparted command. The first step is to view the partition table or layout on all block devices. This helps you identify the storage device you want to partition. You can do this usingpartedorfdisk command. W...
As a Linux administrator you might perform a disk partition task quite often. Most of the time the partition table will be altered successfully after the disk partition in the virtual environments (such as VMWare, Virtualbox, etc). But things do not go as planned every time, because sometimes...
Doing so gives you all the information about the logical disks or partitions on your hard disk, using which, you can then decide how you'd like to manage partitions on your disk. To view the partition table in Linux, enterpand hitEnter. Keep in mind that this command will come in handy...
For this first very simple example I am going to choose, 'Install Linux alongside the existing Windows installation'. Calamares then adds a second graphic bar showing the proposed new disk layout, and asks me to select a partition which will be reduced to make room for Linux installation. In...
Disk identifier: 0x3dffd626 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 1 267349 2147480811 83 Linux Set Partition Table to GPT using Parted mklabel In our case, we need to create a partition >2TB. So, we should use parted command. ...
Remove disk partition using GParted [GUI Method] As a desktop Linux user, you probably will be more comfortable and perhaps safer with a GUI-based tool. There areseveral tools that let you manage partitions on Linux. Depending on your distribution you will have one or even more such tool al...
To initialize an Ext4 filesystem, use themkfs.ext4utility. You can add a partition label with the-Lflag. Select a name that will help you identify this particular drive: Note:Make sure you provide the path to the partition and not the entire disk. In Linux, disks have names likesda,sdb...
4. Check Disk Space Usage of /home Directory The command"df -hT /home"is used to display disk space utilization of/homedirectory or partition in a human-readable format. The-Toption shows the filesystem type (ext4) along with other information. ...