Linux Administration/Installation/Disk Layout

This lesson covers disk layout.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the disk layout portion of Linux+ certification include:

• Design hard disk layout
  • Allocate file systems and swap space to separate partitions or disks
  • Tailor the design to the intended use of the system
  • Ensure the /boot partition conforms to the hardware architecture requirements for booting
  • Knowledge of basic features of Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  • The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
    • /(root) filesystem
    • /var filesystem
    • /home filesystem
    • /boot filesystem
    • swap space
    • mount points
    • partitions

Readings

1. Wikipedia: Disk partitioning
2. Wikipedia: System partition and boot partition
3. Wikipedia: Paging
4. Wikipedia: Logical Volume Manager (Linux)
5. Wikipedia: Mount (computing)
6. Wikipedia: ZFS (Combined filesystems and Logical Volume Manager)

Multimedia

1. YouTube: Linux Partitions and File System Layouts

Activities

1. Complete the tutorial IBM: Learn Linux, 101: Hard disk layout

Key Terms

inode (index node)

A data structure in a Unix-style file system that describes a file-system object such as a file or a directory.

See also

• ZFS

References

Linux Administration/Installation

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