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)  Disk partitioning
 * 2)  System partition and boot partition
 * 3)  Paging
 * 4)  Logical Volume Manager (Linux)
 * 5)  Mount (computing)
 * 6)  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.