Below are some commands which can be use to check,create,modify system hard-drive partitions in Linux. We will see detail uses of these commands in our future posts soon.
1) cfdisk /dev/sda
Creating a partitions in graphical way
2) fdisk /dev/sda
Same as 1 but without graphical way
3) swapon -s
Check the swap partition
4) dd if=/dev/zero of=/path_to_file/ bs=1M
count=100
Creating dump in a file up-to 100MB
5) lsblk
List block of devices partitions
6) mkfs + press tab button
To format partition with any given file system
7) partprobe
After creating a new partition you have to Update the partition table
for kernel.This commands helps you to update the partition table without rebooting system.
8) mkswap /dev/sdb2
Format as swap partition
9) swapon -a
To make
it active
10) add swap partition entry in /etc/fstab
To make swap partition permanent
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