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Managing disks and partitions with the Linux Shell

Latest update on December 15, 2010 at 10:14 AM by jak58 .

Here are the key controls for managing disks & partitions on Linux

mount: Displays the list of mounted filesystems
mount device dir: Mounts a file system (from a peripheral device) on a directory
mount-t msdos device dir: Mount a DOS partition
- df: Displays the space used/free on the mounted file systems.
- -h stand for sizes in KB
- -h (Linux & BSD) stand for the most significant sizes of the unit
fdisk device: Changing the partition (MBR)
pdisk device: Changing the partitioning (Apple Partition Map -> Mac OS X & BSD)
disklabel device: Changing the partitioning (for BSD disklabel)
newfs device: Formatting a partition
mkfs device: Formatting a partition
- /etc/fstab: Correspondence between devices and mount points and the mounting options,

Note that: /etc/fstab is also used to auto mount partition at startup.

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