104.1 Create Partitions and Filesystems

Question 1

General order of preparing drive for use step 1

Physical

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Install

Question 2

General order of preparing drive for use step 2

partition the

Answer 2

device

Question 3

General order of preparing drive for use step 3

format partitions

Answer 3

created with chosen filesystem type

Question 4

General order of preparing drive for use step 4

determine access permissions and create

Answer 4

system mount point directory

Question 5

General order of preparing drive for use step 5

mount device/partition on chosen

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directory

Question 6

General order of preparing drive for use step 6

if intended to be persistent add an entry to

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/etc/fstab

Question 7

/dev

standard linux device directory where disks have associated entries

Answer 7

/dev

IDE

SATA/SCSI

Question 8

/dev

Partition(s) that are independent of any extended and logical partitions (see below), typically
you can have up to FOUR primary partitions (historically a limit of the MBR) on a disk device
(with some exceptions - see GUID below)

Answer 8

Primary partition

Question 9

/dev

only one of these per drive
think ‘container’ for logical partitions

Answer 9

Extended partition

Question 10

/dev

partitions with an extended partition usually needed when there is a need for more than four partitions

Answer 10

Logical partition

Question 11

/dev

partition(s) that are specially formatted and dedicated to vm in support of system memory exhaustion

Answer 11

Swap partitions

Question 12

/dev

swap partitions should be at least the size of system memory

Answer 12

historic was 2x system memory

Question 13

/dev - numbering

primary partitions

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1 through 4

Question 14

/dev - numbering

logical partitions

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5 through n

Question 15

fdisk

disk partitioning tool installed with every distribution (standard partitioning rules no ability to edit GUID drives)

Answer 15

fdisk

Question 16

fdisk

deals with traditional MBR partition tables and size limitations is

Answer 16

2TB size limit

four partition limit (primary and extended - logical drives were created to address) no disk checksum support

Question 17

gdisk

disk partitioning tool installed in most modern distributions and capable of creating/modifying GUID tables

Answer 17

address limitations of the MBR partition table

gdisk

Question 18

parted

disk partitioning tool with an extended feature set often used with GUI front end extension

Answer 18

parted

Question 19

fdisk

command line along with device

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fdisk /dev/sda

Question 20

fdisk

list MBR status and disk partion info for indicated devices

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fdisl -l [device]

Question 21

fdisk interactive options

display disk/partition summary

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fdisk p

Question 22

fdisk interactive options

create new partition

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fdisk n

Question 23

fdisk interactive options

make primary partition

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fdisk p
[#] number of primary partitions 1 through 4

Question 24

fdisk interactive options

make extended partition

Answer 24

fdisk e

[#] number of extended partition 2 through 4

Question 25

fdisk interactive options make logical partition

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fdisk l [#] number of logical partition (range will depend on previous choices but will be number of the extended partition + 1

Question 26

fdisk change position type

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t

Question 27

hex code partition type linux swap

Answer 27

82

Question 28

hex code partition type linux

Answer 28

83

Question 29

hex code partition type linux extended

Answer 29

85

Question 30

hex code partition type linux LVM

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8e

Question 31

hex code partition type linux RAID

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fd

Question 32

fdisk write changes to disk

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w

Question 33

gdisk similar in functionality but support for additional filesystem types and the GUID partition table

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gdisk

Question 34

gdisk list GUID (gpt) status and disk partition information for the indicated devices

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gdisk -l [device]

Question 35

gdisk interactive options

Answer 35

as with disk, nothing is written to the drive until you explicitly indicate

Question 36

gdisk interactive options display disk/partition summary

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p

Question 37

gdisk interactive options create new partition

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n

Question 38

gdisk interactive options make primary partition

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p of primary partitions 1 - 28

Question 39

parted capable of dealing with both legacy MBR and newer GPT drives

Answer 39

parted

Question 40

parted list A LOT of info about the indicated device and partitions

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parted -l [device]

Question 41

parted interactive options list commands available

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help

Question 42

parted interactive options create partition with the indicated volume name at the beginning value and ending at the end value

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mkpart [volume name] [end]

Question 43

superblock portion of the disk that can be read and contains filesystem information

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size inode stats last time checked

Question 44

superblock typically stored on disk in first sector

Answer 44

exists in multiple locations to facilitate recovery

Question 45

**superblock** first backup bloc for ext filesystems

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8193

Question 46

Inode associated with every file and directory on the system

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Inode

Question 47

**Inode** contains info about the file except

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filename

Question 48

Inode the number of inodes is set at filesystem creation time and cannot be changed

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afterwards

Question 49

**Filesystem types** linux extended filestystem legacy

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ext2

Question 50

**Filesystem types** linux extended filesystem with journaling

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ext3

Question 51

**Filesystem types** linux extended filesystem with including performance enhancements over ext3

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ext4

Question 52

**Filesystem types** extent filesystem, enhanced performance - particularly on filesystems with many smaller files

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xfs

Question 53

**Filesystem types** one of the first filesystems to introduce journaling and offer dynamic resizing capabilities

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ReiserFS

Question 54

**Filesystem types** builds on ReiserFS features while adding additional admin features while increasing performance on larger filetystems

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btrfs

Question 55

**Filesystem types** filesystem specific to CD-ROM

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iso9660

Question 56

**Filesystem types** filesystem specific to DVD

Answer 56

udf

Question 57

**Filesystem types** older DOS partition type used for compatibility with other OS

Answer 57

vfat

Question 58

Formatting the process of preparing the size and structures on a partition and applying the filesystem type indicated that makes it available for mounting and use

Answer 58

formatting

Question 59

mkfs make

Answer 59

filesystem

Question 60

mkfs creates the indicated filesystem type on the chosen disk partition

Answer 60

mkfs -t [fstype] [device/partition]

Question 61

mkfs create the filesystem with the indicated block size default 4096

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mkfs -b [#]

Question 62

mkfs percentage of space reserved for root user

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mkfs -m [#]

Question 63

mkfs set the partition volume label

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mkfs -L [label]

Question 64

mkfs additional options

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mkfs -O [optional]

Question 65

mkfs.[fstype] equvalent command for each filesystem type to format the

Answer 65

indicated partition

Question 66

make2fs equivalent command for making an ex2/3/4 filesystem

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/etc/mke2fs.conf option file for make2fs behavior

Question 67

make2fs change the default behavior as configured in config file

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make2fs -O [optional]

Question 68

create partition create swap space out of the indicated partition or file

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mkswap

Question 69

create partition creates RAID array set from indicated disks

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mkraid

Question 70

create partition create special files

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mknod

Question 71

create partition create ISO filesystem for burning to CD-ROM

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mkisofs