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Partition Management

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A logical division of a storage device   Partition  
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Interactive utility that requires values and decisions to create partitons   fdisk  
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Syntax for fdisk   fdisk device_name  
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fdisk Hexadecimal code for a SWAP partition   0x82  
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fdisk Hexadecimal code for a LINUX standard partition   0x83  
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fdisk Hexadecimal code for a EXTENDED partition   0x85  
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fdisk Hexadecimal code for a LOGICAL partition   0x8e  
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fdisk Utility Options: List the partition TYPE supported   fdisk -l  
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fdisk Utility Options: Open the HELP   m  
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fdisk Utility Options: Create a new partition   n - p = Primary, e = extended, l = logical  
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fdisk Utility Options: Display the partition TABLE for the device - without applying changes   p  
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fdisk Utility Options:WRITE (save) the partition table and EXIT the fdisk utility   w  
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fdisk Utility Options: DELETE a partion   d  
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fdisk Utility Options: Change the partition TYPE   t Enter82 to change to a swap partition  
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fdisk utility prompt from command line   fdisk  
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List the current partition configuration on the system   fdisk -l  
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Requests the OS kernel to re-read the partition and recognize the table changes   partprobe  
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Not limited to only 4 partitions (like fdisk) instead up 128 disk partitions   parted  
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Each parted partition can exceed   2 terabytes  
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parted interactive command prompt enter:   parted  
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Interactive parted commands: Select a device   select /dev/sdb  
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Interactive parted commands: label   mklabel gpt y enter  
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Interactive parted commands:Create a primary 5 GB partition on /dev/sdb   mkpart primary 1 5000  
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Interactive parted commands: Specify a file system   y enter ext3 print  
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Interactive parted commands: Resize partition 1 to 6000 GB   resize 1 6000 print  
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Interactive parted commands: Quit the parted utility   q  
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Can handle large disks and files - considered one of the best modern filesystem   Btrfs  
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Btrfs Enterprise Features: Add space as needed (scalable)   Pooling  
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Btrfs Enterprise Features: point-in-time pictures as disk blocks in the b-tree file system   Snapshots  
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Btrfs Enterprise Features: data blocks and metadata entries that have their own ---- for max filesystem integrity   Checksums  
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Btrfs Feature:   copy-on-write B-tree Better performance as file system grows Designed to be an enterprise-class scalable filesystem  
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