how to partition the hard drive
I am new to Linux. I have 4 (100% new)internal hard drives of 900GB each. How can i configure and partition the hard drive using centOs, i need to create at least 50 partition.
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That's quite a lot of space. Why do you think you "need to create at least 50 partition" ?.
Do you already have CentOS installed ?. Are you planning to install CentOS on those disks ?. Incomplete info will get you incomplete answers. |
I have an ibm server,and want to install centos. After that i want to create partitions and each partition is used to form part of the storage necessary to support a single set of files and directories.
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Maybe I've misunderstood what you're trying to do. :scratch: What type of IBM server by the way? X Series, P series? What model? Play Bonny! :hattip: |
i agree with soadyheid.
i use gparted to play around with partitions. |
This is a good article on partitions
http://shearer.org/Linux_Server_Partitioning If you need some basic information, there's always Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_volume_management and the Red Hat documentation https://www.centos.org/docs/5/ |
CentOS will default to LVM - this can (more easily) accommodate something like what the OP wants using lvs.
But I too can't see the point. |
i have an IBM x3550 M4 server.i want to allocate each member with a separate partition on a hard drive, so that they can place their personal data and no one will be able to access each other folder.
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then you most defiantly want to use LVM
but NOT 50+ partitions those 50+ sound like normal everyday user home folders set up the SINGLE!!! "/home" partition on a large volume new users will automatically have a /home/UserName " folder added as you add the users and each of those "home" folders will be owned by the user and NOT EVEN READABLE by other users ( except for root) sounds like you need a refresher course in linux/unix basics |
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Information on how to configure the X3550 M4 ServeRAID array is here dependant on adapter model, etc.
I'm with John VV, one of the basic user/data security features of a Unix/Linux operating system; each user has his/her own /home directory unreadable by other users. (root excepted) Play Bonny! :hattip: |
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