Managing Disks and Filesystems
Christopher Negus · 2015
This chapter describes how to work with hard disks. Hard disk tasks include partitioning, adding filesystems, and managing those filesystems in various ways. Storage devices that are attached to the systems from removable devices and network devices can be partitioned and managed in the same ways. The chapter explains how logical volume management (LVM) can be used to make it easier to grow, shrink, and otherwise manage filesystems more efficiently. It mostly focuses on explaining how your computer's disk is partitioned and connected to form your Linux filesystem, as well as how to partition disks, format filesystems and swap space, and have those items used when the system boots. The chapter then covers how to do partitioning and filesystem creation manually. Traditionally, the most common devices to mount by hand are removable media, such as DVDs or CDs.