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...
Sometimes we stuck in a situation where we just have access to the terminal and need to delete partition, or you have stepped down in Linux, and your logical mind pushes you to delete the partition using a command. But you don’t know how to delete the partition using the terminal, not...
Linux includes many native tools to create and manage partitions. You can choose any one you prefer. In this tutorial, we will use thegdiskcommand. It needs the disk path as an argument. It allows us to create, update, and delete partitions on the specified disk. We can use thelsblkcomm...
Terminal with sudo privileges NTFS Drive ntfs-3g Install NTFS-3g on Linux NTFS-3gis an open-source tool that helps the Linux Operating system to supportreadandwrite,and without this utility, you will not be able to write data on it. ntfs-3gis already installed in some of the Linux Distribu...
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...
In the next step, we’ll need to set a passcode for the encryption: Once we set up the key and install Ubuntu, we’ll be asked to enter the key to decrypt our partitions when booting into Ubuntu: Although the encryption method might vary a bit for different Linux distributions, we can...
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This article will show how to grow a partition on your Linux partition to fill the entire disk using growpart. This is useful if you have resized a virtual
If you decided to not create a swap partition and use the swap file instead, you need to do the following steps after the installation: Open the terminal app. Type the following: sudo su Type your current password to get root privileges. The prompt will change from the ~ symbol to #: ...
Moving A Partition There are times when you wish to increase the size of a partition, and there is free space on the disk, but it is not next to the partition you need to expand. In this case, you will need to move one or more partitions to "move" that free space next to the ...