LINUX PARTITIONING COMMANDS

To Partition a drive in linux use the following commands,

1. fdisk

use ' man fdisk ' to find about the format of this command

2. sudo fdisk -l

This will give you information about the disc.

3. To change partitions on the drive to make it a native linux type partition from FAT to linux type

goto

sudo fdisk /dev/sda

we are going to work with sda main device

command line will come type m to check options

to print partition tables on this drive type p

to change first delete the windows partition

press d to delete it

to verify type p

now create the new linux type partition type n

now type p to make it primary

now type the size of the partition

type +4G

type p to verifty the partition

now enter n

type also primary this will be primary partition

type partition no.

and default size of the partition if you dont want to or dont have anymore size left

now type p to verify

now type w to alter the partition

sudo fdisk -l

now we will see two partition

now to make file system ext4

use mkfs command

now type

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1

this will format the file system

now do the same for sda2 partition

sudo mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda2

now we need to mount them

change to /mnt directory

cd /mnt

make two directories name them part01 and part02

sudo mkdir part01 part02

mount sda1 and sda2

for super use root use

sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/part1

for specific user pi

sudo mount -o gid=pi, uid=pi /dev/sda1 /mnt/part1

for second one

sudo mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/part2

to create a file in part 1

cd part1

sudo touch test1

to check

ls -la

this show a file is created in part1 partition

to unmount a partition use

sudo unmount /dev/sda1

sudo unmount /dev/sda2

this will unmount the partition for super user root