Mpartition (1) - Partition an MSDOS hard disk
Partprobe (8) - Inform the OS of partition table changes
Partx (8) - Telling the kernel about presence and
numbering of on-...
Pvcreate (8) - Initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM
Pvresize (8) - Resize a disk or partition in use by LVM2
Sfdisk (8) - Partition table manipulator for LinuxUsing whereis
To find a command and its documentation, you can use the whereis
command. For example, if you are looking for the fdisk command, you can
use this:
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matthew@seymour:~$ whereis fdisk
fdisk: /sbin/fdisk /usr/share/man/man8/fdisk.8.gz
Understanding the Linux File System
Hierarchy
Linux has inherited from UNIX a well-planned hierarchy for organizing
things. It isn’t perfect, but it is generally logical and mostly consistent,
although distributions do tend to make some modifications that force some
thinking and adaptation when moving between, say, Fedora, Slackware, and
Ubuntu. Table 10.1 shows some of the top-level directories that are part of a
standard Linux distro.
Table 10.1 Basic Linux Directories
Directory Description/ The root directory/bin Essential commands/boot Boot loader files, Linux kernel/dev Device files/etc System configuration files/home User home directories