Mon 20 Jul 2009
Create a new partitionon on linux server
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To Create a new partition on Linux server we have to use following steps steps.
Login to your linix server with root user and Using #fdisk -l command you can list the number of partitions already created on your linux server.
#fdisk -l
It will give you following details
Disk /dev/sda: 499.5 GB, 499558383616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60734 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 653 5245191 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 654 3713 24579450 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 3714 6324 20972857+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 6325 60734 437048325 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 6325 8935 20972826 83 Linux
If you want to create 1000MB partition which is mounted on /new directory then proceed with following steps
#fdisk /dev/sda
type n for new partiton and specify the cylender size as as +1000M then type p to view new parttion then type w for save
then run the following command
#partprobe
Now you need to format the the newly created partition
#mke2fs -j /dev/sdaX
The X is the partition number which you have created
Now create the dirctory where you want to point the newly created partition
#mkdir -p /new
then with following command you can point the new parttion to the directory.
#mount -t ext3 /dev/sdaX /new
To keep these settings permanant you need to add the entry in fstab.
#vi /etc/fstab
/dev/sdaX /new ext3 defaults 0 0
save and quite the fstab file.
You can verify the setting by rebooting your server . Please check the new partition with command
#fdisk -l