- When we want to expand file system
When we just added new hard disk drive
Here, we take example suppose we just added new hard disk drives
Step 1 Add Hard Disk physically with Machine
Step 2 login as a root and execute # fdisk –l command. You will see newly added disks here. (Example: /dev/sdc)
Step 3 Now we create file system. Log is as a root user and type following command:
# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdc1
Step 4 Create mount point directory for the file system
# mkdir /Indian
Step 5 Mount the new file system
# mount /dev/sdc1 /Indian
Step 6 we need to add partition to /etc/fstab file
# vi /etc/fstab
Add/append following entry to file:
/dev/sdc1 /indian ext3 defaults 0 2
Formatting linux filesystem required for many reasons. If you want to expand file system or you just added new hard disk drive or create separate partitions for security and performance reasons. Whatever may be your reason(s) all file system creating involves creations of superblock, inode and other filesystem metadata structure. Fortunately, Linux comes with mkfs command to format filesystem. It is used to build a Linux file system on a device, usually a hard disk partition. General syntax of mkfs is as follows:
ReplyDeletemkfs -t filetype /dev/DEVICE
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