August 2021
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
11h 16m
English
Content preview from Linux Cookbook, 2nd Edition
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Chapter 9. Managing Partitions and Filesystems with GParted
GParted, the GNOME Partition Manager, is one of my favorite tools on Linux. GParted is a nice graphical front-end to the parted partition manager command and all of the filesystem management commands. You can create, delete, move, copy, and resize partitions and filesystems, and create new partition tables with just a few clicks. Other features are data rescue and managing labels and UUIDs.
Labels on partitions and filesystems are useful for identifying partitions and filesystems in a friendly way, and to give filesystems short, easy names. Without a label, a filesystem is identified by its long UUID. For example, when you plug in a USB stick without filesystem labels, it appears as something like /media/username/1d742b2d-a621-4454-b4d3-469216a6f01e. Give it a nice short label like mystuff, and then it mounts as /media/username/mystuff.
After an operation in GParted is complete, the status window offers you the option to save a logfile of what it did. Save this information and study it because it shows you the commands it used.
Changing Your Running System
For some operations, such as copying, checking and repair, and setting labels and UUIDs, it is required to unmount the filesystems first. You cannot unmount the filesystems that are required for your running system. In this case, use a bootable SystemRescue CD/USB (Chapter 19). If you are running a multiboot system with more than one Linux distribution installed, boot ...
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