In Chapter 3, we saw an overview of some of the top-level disk devices that the kernel makes available. In this chapter, we’ll discuss in detail how to work with disks on a Linux system. You’ll learn how to partition disks, create and maintain the filesystems that go inside disk partitions, and work with swap space.
Recall that disk devices have names like /dev/sda, the first SCSI subsystem disk. This kind of block device represents the entire disk, but there are many different components and layers inside a disk.
Figure 4-1 illustrates a schematic of a simple Linux disk (note that the figure is not to scale). As ...
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