Adding a New Partition

CompTIA Linux + Domain:

Domain 1.0: Hardware and System Configuration

CompTIA Linux + Objective:

Objective 1.4: Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux environment.

Overview

This lab provides guidance on performing Adding a New Partition of the Linux+. By performing this lab, students will learn how to determine the hardware capabilities of a Linux system.

outcomes:

In this lab, you will learn to:

  1. Create new Linux partitions.
  2. Format partitions using mkfs.
  3. Display file system information.
  4. Use fsck to maintain file system integrity.
  5. Mount newly created partition.
  6. Create a swap file system.
Courses

Key terms and descriptions

Partition
A partition can be thought of as a division or "part" of a real hard disk drive.
A partition is really only a logical separation from the whole drive, but it appears as though the division creates multiple physical drives.
EXT
The Extended File Systems 2, 3, and 4 are used by the Linux operating systems. Both EXT3 and EXT4 are journaling file systems. A journaling file system will log changes to the file structure and will help the system recover from errors such as an unclean shutdown. EXT2 does not have journaling.