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Hard drive partitioning strategies - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: LPIC-1 Exam 101 (Version 5.0)
Hard drive partitioning strategies
- [Instructor] We've already chosen the automatic partitioning scheme during install. However, if you're installing a server from scratch and have special plans for that server, it may be good to create partitions manually. This gives you a lot of flexibility that you won't have with the automatic partitioning scheme. With other operating systems, the entire OS goes in one partition. With Linux, we have the ability to put pieces of it on many different discs just by mounting those volumes into the file system tree. For instance, we could segment off /boot, /home, and /var into separate partitions if we wanted to. The Linux mounting system is completely flexible. We can even mount a drive onto a directory deep within the file system such as /home/grant/data and have it be completely transparent to the user. When the user goes into the directory, they will not know it's a separate drive. In modern Linux, we have several…
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Hard drive partitioning strategies5m 43s
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List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks5m 55s
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Create parititons using parted3m 20s
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Resize partitions without losing data4m 44s
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Basic features of logical volume management (LVM)2m 10s
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Manage LVM volumes and volume groups6m 5s
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Extend existing logical volumes2m 48s
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Reduce existing logical volumes3m 44s
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Replace a physical volume3m 58s
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Create EXT filesystems3m 25s
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Repair EXT filesystems4m 55s
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Mount filesystems automatically4m 13s
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Back up and restore an EXT filesystem2m 57s
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Basic features of Btrfs3m 25s
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Archiving files with tar4m 41s
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