# 13.0 Disk Management

### Topics 
- Making a Partitions
- Disks
- filesystems
- fdisk
- fstab
- blocks
- mounting

### Reading List
Chapter: 14

### Commands
|Command|Action|
|:-|:-|
|fdisk|manipulate disk partition table|
|mount|mount a filesystem|
|blkid|locate/print block device attributes|
|mkfs|build a Linux filesystem|
|mkfs.ext4|create an ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem|
|mkfs.xfs|construct an XFS filesystem|
|mkswap|set up a Linux swap area|
|swapon|enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping|
|swapoff|enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping|
|fstab (file)|static information about the filesystems|