Chapter 17. Create Partitions and Filesystems

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Manage MBR partition tables

Use various mkfs commands to create various filesystems, such as ext2/ext3/ext4, XFS, and VFAT

Awareness of ReiserFS and btrfs

Basic knowledge of gdisk and parted with GP

fdisk

gdisk

parted ...

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