Introduction

Today's systems

Disk geometry

Disk partitions

File system
 

Practical Approach

Hardware setup

Partitions

Mount

Automate mount

   Partition means that a hard disk is divided into serveral parts. These parts are then access with files in /dev directory. To ensure that a computer can locate each and every partition, a Partition Table is set-up. A partition table is actually not a table, it is the first sector of a hard disk. This first sector contains a program code and only a small part is the partition table. This sector is also called Master Boot Record (MBR) because it will dispatch the booting to other part of the hard disk. Thus it can be said the parent of all the boot code in the hard disk.

Why use partitions?

• devide space of hard drive
• security
• speed

• The root partition
• The swap partition
• The user partition