Partitioning: Part 2 (Demo)
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>> Hello Cybrarians,
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>> and welcome back to
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>> the Linux plus course here at Cybrary.
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I'm your instructor, Rob Goelz.
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In today's lesson,
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we're going to take on the second part of
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our two-part on partitioning.
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Upon completion of today's lesson,
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we're going to be able to work with
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the parted command and we'll also know
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how to read the /proc/partitions
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file to get partitioned info.
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Let's do some more demo time
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and hop over to our demo environment.
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Hi, and here we are back in our CentOS environment.
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If you remember from where we
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left off in our previous lesson,
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we had just created a partition on /dev/sdb.
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Let's just do an ls on /dev/sd.
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We can actually see all of our partitions,
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I apologize for the typo dev sd.
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We can see sda with all of its partitions and the
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newly created dev sdb right here.
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Now what we can also do if we wanted to create
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partitions on the sdb disk
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>> is we can use a command called parted.
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>> Parted is a little bit more
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interactive than what we've been using.
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The only thing that you need to know
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about parted by comparison to
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F disc and G disc is that when you're using parted,
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changes are written to disk automatically.
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There's no hidden Q in putting
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out before you finish what you're doing,
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in case you screw up.
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It's written automatically, there's
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no hit W and it's written,
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it's just written. Keep that in mind.
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It is something that is a little more
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interactive and maybe a little bit more intuitive,
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but it certainly is something that's a little bit more
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dangerous if you're not real
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careful about what you're doing.
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The other thing we need to know about parted is that we
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have to select the disk we're going to work on.
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To get started to work on dev sdb,
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we're going to do sudo parted /dev/sdb.
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Because if we don't type that in, it will use sda,
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which is the disk that is running
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the whole VMs. Let's not do that.
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We're in here and then
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the first thing we may want to do is
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type help to get a list of all of our commands.
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Then we can see all of our help commands here.
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This is the equivalent to an M
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on F disk or a question mark on G disk.
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>> In parted, just type help and
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>> you'll get a list of
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all the commands that you want to run.
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For us, we're going to create a new partition.
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We can do that by typing make part,
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mkpart, and the partition name,
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we'll just call this test.
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It's a test partition after all.
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We'll give it the file type ext4.
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For the start, well,
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remember when we created our first partition,
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we started at one and we ended at 1024.
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Let's start at around 1048.
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Then we'll end at 1048 plus 1024,
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I'll say 2072. Hit enter.
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It's going to say we're off by a little bit,
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we'll accept the closest location
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that they can manage by hitting "Yes".
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Now it's done. That partition is written, and in fact,
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we can type print.
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Remember, it'll say right up here,
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print, display the partition table.
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We can hit "Print" and
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we can see that we have a new partition.
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It's done. There's no hitting W
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or anything, it's completed.
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Now we're all set.
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If we go ahead and quit out of here, "Quit".
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We can see that new partition.
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We can run ls /dev/sd star.
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Now we can see not only do we have an sdv1,
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we also have a /dev/sdv2.
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Another command we can run is lsb.
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Let's talk about this more later,
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but this actually just displays block devices.
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We see a nice tree format here,
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we see sdb and then sdb1 and sdb2.
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That's pretty much all we need to know
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about the parted command.
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Now let's take a look at another location on
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the system and hit Control L. There's the clear.
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What we're going to do is we're going to do a
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less on /proc/partitions.
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The /proc/partitions file
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contains information about this partitions.
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Weird. Yes,
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so literally we can just do it [inaudible]
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>> on proc partitions and we can
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>> see information about all of our partitions file.
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We're going to see them, the blocks,
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and the name of all of these partitions
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here that we have.
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We see our new partition,
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dev sdb1, and dev sdb2.
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But with that, we come to the end of the lesson.
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In today's lesson, we covered
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the parted command and the /proc/partitions file.
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Thanks so much for being here,
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>> and I look forward to seeing you in the next lesson.
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