Questions
If you managed to skim through some parts of this chapter, you might want to recap a few essential details about Linux filesystem and disk management:
- Think of another tool to use for working with disks and install it.
Hint: Try installing
parted
and use it from the command line. You can also use GParted from the GUI. - Experiment with using Disks (in GNOME) and KDE Partition Manager (in KDE) and use the command-line interface side by side.
Hint: Keep both applications open and use the command-line utilities side by side. Try to format and mount a disk from the command line while keeping the GUI apps open.
- Format new partitions using different filesystems.
Hint: Use
btrfs
instead ofext4
. - Explore your filesystem and disks.
Hint: Use tools such as
lsblk
,df
, andfdisk
.