CompTIA Linux+ Portable Command Guide: All the commands for the CompTIA XK0-004 exam in one compact, portable resource, 2nd Edition

Chapter 4. Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux environment

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Basic partitions

• Raw devices

• GPT

• MBR

Filesystem hierarchy

• Real filesystems

• Virtual filesystems

• Relative paths

• Absolute paths

Device mapper

• LVM

• mdadm

• Multipath

Tools

• XFS tools

• LVM tools

• EXT tools

• Commands

  • mdadm

  • fdisk

  • parted

  • mkfs

  • iostat

  • df

  • du

  • mount

  • umount

  • lsblk

  • blkid

  • dumpe2fs

  • resize2fs

  • fsck

  • tune2fs

  • e2label

Location

• /etc/fstab

• /etc/cryptab

• /dev/

• /dev/mapper

• /dev/disk/by-

  • id

  • uuid

  • path

  • multipath

• /etc/mtab

• /sys/block

• /proc/partitions

• /proc/mounts

Filesystem types

• ext3

• ext4

• xfs

• nfs

• smb

• cifs

• ntfs

Basic Partitions

Partitions are used to separate a hard disk into smaller components. Each component ...