Your new drive should now be partitioned, formatted, mounted, and ready for use. This is the general process you can use to turn a raw disk into a filesystem that Linux can use for storage. There are more complex methods of partitioning, formatting, and mounting which may be more appropr...
TheIdcolumn shows the partition type (or partition id) that has been assigned by fdisk to the partition. A partition type serves as an indicator of the file system, the partition contains or, in simple words, the way data will be accessed in that partition. Please note that a comprehensive...
When prompted, press'p'for print. This prints out the partition’s information. From the output, you can see that a new partition/dev/sdb1has been created with Linux as the filesystem type. We need to format it to the ext4 filesystem type which we will do so in the next section. L...
One thing to remember when creating additional partitions is that your new partitions must allocate space that isn’t already allocated. For example, the first partition we created filled from 0MB to 2 GB meaning that any additional partition must fill space after the first 2 GB of data. The...
After you execute mount a partition or filesystem, execute the mount command without any arguments to view all the mounts. In the example below, after mounting the USB drive on a system, the output of mount looks like the below. As seen below, the USB device (i.e:/dev/sdb) is mounte...
The Linux installer will reduce the size of the WIndows partition, and create what it needs to install Linux in the space that it recovers by doing that. Ican then continue through the rest of the installation. When it is finished I will have Linux installed, and when I reboot it will ...
1. First create a new partition on your drive with the (n) command option: # fdisk /dev/sdb Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.23.2). Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them. Be careful before using the write command. ...
On most computer systems, Linux or otherwise, when you plug a USB thumb drive in, you're alerted that the drive exists. If the drive is already partitioned and formatted to your liking, you just need your computer to list the drive somewhere in your file manager window or on your deskto...
Personally, I would recommend that any Linux installation be done on a Logical partition. Linux will boot from either, and it will save you problems later down the road should you need or want to create additional partitions beyond the four Primary partitions allowed. In addition, it will cons...
If you wish to create a partition (in which to install Ubuntu Linux, for example) on a hard drive which already contains a Windows partition, or if you need to provide more space in an existing partition that is running out of space, you will need to perform one or more partition resiz...