RHCE - Part 1

Disk Partitioning

• Disk Structure
  • MBR
  • Primary Partitions [1-4]
  • Extended Partitions
  • Logical Partitions [5 --> ]
  • IDE devices: 63 partitions (dev RPM only creates 32)
  • SCSI Devices: 15 partitions
• Partitioning tools
  • fdisk
  • DiskDruid
  • Others: sfdisk, gnuparted ...