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Summary

In this chapter, you learned:

  • The mount command allows the root user to manually mount a file system.

  • parted can be used to add, modify, and remove partitions on disks with the MBR or the GPT partitioning scheme.

  • XFS file systems are created on disk partitions using mkfs.xfs.

  • To make file system mounts persistent, they must be added to /etc/fstab.

  • Swap spaces are initialized using the mkswap command.

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