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List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks

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List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks

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- [Male] Let's create some partitions now. Power up your VM, log in, and open a terminal. The first thing we want to do is get a list of drives in the system. We can do this by catting proc partitions. In a terminal, type in cat /proc/partitions, and hit enter. This information comes from the kernel directly. This is the list of drives and partitions that the kernel currently recognizes. Another tool that's useful in determining the available drives is lsblk. Type in lsblk, and hit enter. This also gives a visual of the drives and their partitions, or logical volumes. We can see that /dev/sda has partitions on it, and they're mounted as /boot, and /, but /dev/sdb is bare. This is one of our new drives. If you want to read the partition table for all drives directly, you can use fdisk -l. Type in clear, and then type in sudo fdisk -l, and hit enter, type in your password if prompted. This will show all partitions on all…

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