Hands-on Guide to the Red Hat Exams: RHSCA and RHCE Cert Guide and Lab Manual

Chapter 3. Disks and Partitioning

This chapter covers the following subjects:

• Basic Partitions—This section covers the setup of basic system partitions.

• Logical Volume Manager—This section describes more advanced partitioning with LVM.

• Setting Up RAID—This section covers a form of advanced partitioning called RAID that can be used for performance and redundancy.

The following RHCSA exam objectives are covered:

• List, create, delete, and set partition types for primary, extended, and logical partitions

• Create and remove physical volumes, assign physical volumes to volume groups, and create and delete logical volumes

• Add new partitions, logical volumes, and swap to a system nondestructively

Disk partitioning is one of the many steps ...