Author: Surendra Anne

Disk Management will contribute more topics than any other in RHCE 133 paper, it’s a vast subject to discuess. From today up to some days I will be posting topics on disk management, so stay tuned you linux learners. Linux OS will consider every thing as files even hardware too, for example if there is one hard disk in a Linux system then it is represented as hda(harddisk “A”) under /dev folder For example if we have 2 Hard disks then the representation is like below/dev/hda/dev/hdbWhere /dev/hda is primary master HDD and /dev/hdb is primary slave HDD If we want to represent floppy drive then the representation is as below/dev/fd0 If we want to represent second floppy drive then the representation is/dev/fd1 If we want to represent cdrom/dev/cdrom If we want to represent DVD-writer/dev/dvdwriter If we want to represent special devices such as SATA,USB-mass storage etc then the representations are as below/dev/sda/dev/sdb/dev/sdc till up to /dev/sdz Suppose if we ant to represent partitions on HDD it goes as below/dev/hda0 for first partition in primary master HDD/dev/hda1 for second partition in primary slave HDD/dev/sdd5 for forth partition in special device 4 For more number of devices see this http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dggtw8pr_1604gz89zmg4 Before creating any partitions we should remember the following things.a. Check for what purpose we want to create the partitions(for example for creating swap)b. Check weather any free space left by...