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