Using a partition for the swap space Linux includes many native tools to create and manage partitions. You can choose any one you prefer. In this tutorial, we will use the gdisk command. It needs the disk path as an argument. It allows us to create, update, and delete partitions on the...
Note:Make sure you provide the path to the partition and not the entire disk. In Linux, disks have names likesda,sdb,hda, etc. The partitions on these disks have a number appended to the end. So you would want to use something likesda1, notsda. sudomkfs.ext4-Ldatapartition/dev/sda1...
This allow users to increase the swap partition whenever we need. If you upgraded the RAM in your system, it is necessary to add more swap space. This help you to manage the system that run applications that require a large amount of memory. Swap can be created in three ways Create a ...
The basic MBR has a limit of four primary partitions, so if you want more than four, you designate one partition as an extended partition. Next, you subdivide the extended partition into logical partitions that the operating system can use as it would any other partition. In this example, p...
This section describes how to create a swap partition on ECS running CentOS 6.8.A file of a specified size is to be created. Ensure that the system disk has enough availa
fdiskorpartedto create partitions. Once you create a partition, you’ll usemkfs commandto create ext2, ext3, or ext4 partition. Once you create a partition, you should use mount command to mount the partition into a mount point (a directory), to start using the filesystem. ...
Chapter 13How to create a swap partition in Linux Chapter 15How to configure RAID in Linux step-by-step Using the parted to create an LVM partition Start thepartedby specifying the second disk's path. #parted /dev/sdb Use theprintcommand to list existing partitions. ...
As we can see,sdais the primary hard drive, whilesdbis an external removable hard drive. For the rest of the tutorial, we’ll be using thesdb1partition.Make sure to back up the data from the partition that we’re going to encrypt because we’ll be formatting that partition. ...
This chapter is a basic tour of the kernel-provided device infrastructure in a functioning Linux system. 本章是对Linux系统中内核提供的设备基础架构的基本介绍。 Throughout the history of Linux, there have been many changes to how the kernel presents devices to the user. We’ll begin by looking...
Change UUID of Linux Partition Follow the below steps to change the UUID of Linux Partition. 1. Run the below command to find out UUID of the devices. # blkid /dev/mapper/centos_centos71-root: UUID="2bc8e0d4-64b5-4dc8-bf4a-024fc980d98a" TYPE="ext4" ...