LINUX Hard Disk Partition Overview

LINUX Hard Disk Partition Overview :- Hard Disk mostly have a two type of cables IDE and SATA connector cables and linux unix has define the Hard Disk with these names.

Here two type of Partition
# Primary
# Extended ( logical )

We create 4 primary partition maximum and when we need more then 4 partitions then 4 primary partition can extend into other partition.

Example :-

Primary Partition => hda1, hda2, hda3, hda4

Logical Partition => hda5, hda6, hda7

Recommended Partition Size

To install Linux main 2 partition are required. When we install the Linux OS in our PC or Laptop machine then we create two type of partition.
# Native
# Swap

Native :- Install file system min-size 10GB, Hard Disk Format ext4 and Mounting Point / (forward slash).

Swap :- Twice the RAM size but Maximum 4GB.

Information about [root@localhost~]# and $

root :- Username.

localhost :- Machine Name.

~ :- Home directory of logged user.

# :- Login with Super User

$ :- Login with local User

In Linux 5 console are work on CLI and 1 console work on GUI. We can increase these console into 63 consoles.
[root@localhost~]#tty :- tell us which terminal we working.

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