Red Hat Certification Interview Question:

How to Add a new logical partition having size 100MB and create the /data which will be
the mount point for the new partition.

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1. Use fdisk /dev/hda ->To create new partition.
2. Type n-> For New partitions
3. It will ask for Logical or Primary Partitions. Press l for logical.
4. It will ask for the Starting Cylinder: Use the Default by pressing Enter Key.
5. Type the Size: +100M ->You can Specify either Last cylinder of Size here.
6. Press P to verify the partitions lists and remember the partitions name.
7. Press w to write on partitions table.
8. Either Reboot or use partprobe command.
9. Use mkfs -t ext3 /dev/hda?
10. Or
11. mke2fs -j /dev/hda? To create ext3 filesystem.
12. vi /etc/fstab
13. Write:
14. /dev/hda? /data ext3 defaults 0 0
11. Verify by mounting on current Sessions also:
15. mount /dev/hda? /data
Submitted by: Administrator