gpt

1. Start a Red Hat 7 LinuxAcademy.com lab server and "mount" a new disk. Once completed, log into the system and navigate to the /dev directory.

[root@localhost]# cd /dev

2. Create a primary Linux partition that is 500M in size on the attached disk.

[root@anthony1 dev]# gdisk xvdf

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.6

Partition table scan:

  MBR: not present

  BSD: not present

  APM: not present

  GPT: not present

Creating new GPT entries.

Command (? for help): n

Partition number (1-128, default 1): 

First sector (34-2097118, default = 2048) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: 

Last sector (2048-2097118, default = 2097118) or {+-}size{KMGTP}: +500M

Current type is 'Linux filesystem'

Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 8300): 8300

Changed type of partition to 'Linux filesystem'

3. Write changes and exit.

Command (? for help): w

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING

PARTITIONS!!

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): Y

OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to xvdf.

The operation has completed successfully.

4. Issue the command to list the block device and it's UUID (Universally Unique IDentifier).

[root@localhost dev]# blkid

5. Create an XFS filesystem on the disk.

[root@localhost dev]# mkfs -t xfs /dev/xvdf1.

6. Mount the partition to /mnt/mymount.

[root@localhost dev]# mkdir /mnt/mymount

[root@localhost dev]# mount /dev/xvdf1 /mnt/mymount

7. Configure the disk to mount automatically during system boot to the /mnt/mymount mount point.

[root@localhost dev]# blkid

/dev/xvdf1: UUID="" TYPE="xfs" 

[root@anthony1 dev]# vim /etc/fstab 

UUID="your uuid here" /mnt/mymount        xfs     defaults 1 1

[root@anthony1 dev]# umount /mnt/mymount

[root@anthony1 dev]# mount -a

[root@anthony1 dev]# df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/xvda2      6.0G  3.9G  2.1G  65% /

devtmpfs        482M     0  482M   0% /dev

tmpfs           497M   13M  484M   3% /run

tmpfs           497M     0  497M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup

/dev/xvdf1      497M   26M  472M   6% /mnt/mymount