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Detailed explanation of Linux system disk

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1. Disk classification

The current disk classifications on the market include: IDE disks (mostly used in PCs), SATA disks, SAS disks, SSD disks, etc. Most servers in enterprises are the latter two, and SATA disks are mostly used within enterprises. For some businesses, SAS disks are mostly used for external businesses (some business platforms).

SATA disks currently have a maximum capacity of 4T, and SAS disks are generally between 300G and 600G. This capacity is most commonly used in enterprise production environments. The use of disks in actual production mainly depends on performance requirements, that is The read and write speed of the disk.

2. Disk architecture

Enterprise-level server multiple disks

Detailed explanation of Linux system disk

3. Calculation of disk capacity

The structure of a disk generally includes tracks, disk surfaces, sectors, headers, etc.

The size of a track = 512 bytes * number of sectors

The size of a disk = the size of the track * the number of tracks

The size of a disk = disk size * number of heads

Therefore, the capacity of a disk = 512 bytes * number of sectors * number of tracks * number of heads

Detailed explanation of Linux system disk

4. Disk partition

The partition information of all disks is stored in the partition table. The Linux system only supports 4 partition table information (primary partition and extended partition). The size of a partition table is 64 bytes

Linux is generally divided into three partitions: boot partition, swap partition, /root partition

Linux partition number: primary partition 1-4, logical partition starts from 5

Actual production environment partition requirements

1. There must be at least two partitions: / and swap

2. Swap (virtual memory) = 1.5*physical memory size. Generally, for servers with physical memory less than or equal to 16G, the swap partition is generally directly set to 16G size

3. It is recommended to set up the /boot partition, Linux boot partition, such as kernel files, etc. Generally, all files are only a few dozen M in size, so this partition can be set to 100-200M

5. Disk partition tool fdisk

fdisk is for disk capacity less than 2T

[root@cairui ~]# fdisk --help
fdisk: invalid option -- '-'

fdisk: Usage:
fdisk [options] change partition table
fdisk [options] -l list partition table(s)
fdisk -s give partition size(s) in blocks

Options:
-b sector size (512, 1024, 2048 or 4096)
-c switch off DOS-compatible mode
-h print help
-u give sizes in sectors instead of cylinders
-v print version
-C specify the number of cylinders
-H specify the number of heads
-S specify the number of sectors per track

: Success

Detailed explanation of Linux system disk

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk /dev/sda1  #对/dev/sda1进行分区操作
Device contains neither a valid DOS partition table, nor Sun, SGI or OSF disklabel
Building a new DOS disklabel with disk identifier 0x02fadd9c.
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
After that, of course, the previous content won't be recoverable.

Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by w(rite)

WARNING: DOS-compatible mode is deprecated. It's strongly recommended to
switch off the mode (command 'c') and change display units to
sectors (command 'u').

Command (m for help): m
Command action
a toggle a bootable flag
b edit bsd disklabel
c toggle the dos compatibility flag
d delete a partition  #删除一个分区
l list known partition types
m print this menu
n add a new partition  #新建一个分区
o create a new empty DOS partition table
p print the partition table  #打印出分区表信息
q quit without saving changes  #不保存退出
s create a new empty Sun disklabel
t change a partition's system id
u change display/entry units
v verify the partition table
w write table to disk and exit  #将分区信息写入分区表并退出程序
x extra functionality (experts only)
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-2610, default 1): 设置起始柱面
Using default value 1
Last cylinder, +cylinders or +size{K,M,G} (1-2610, default 2610):
设置大小或柱面
Using default value 2610
Command (m for help): m
Command action
a toggle a bootable flag
b edit bsd disklabel
c toggle the dos compatibility flag
d delete a partition
l list known partition types
m print this menu
n add a new partition
o create a new empty DOS partition table
p print the partition table
q quit without saving changes
s create a new empty Sun disklabel
t change a partition's system id
u change display/entry units
v verify the partition table
w write table to disk and exit
x extra functionality (experts only)
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Syncing disks.
Command (m for help): p 打印分区表信息
Disk /dev/sdb: 21.5 GB, 21474836480 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 2610 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
121 / 753
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb712cc55
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 2610 20964793+ 83 Linux
分区完成后执行 partprobe 通知系统分区表发生改变
接下来进行格式化分区
[root@Centos ~]# mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
1310720 inodes, 5241198 blocks
262059 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
Maximum filesystem blocks=4294967296
160 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
8192 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (32768 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 24 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
[root@Centos ~]# tune2fs -c -1 /dev/sdb1
tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
[root@Centos ~]# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt 挂载分区至/mnt 下
[root@Centos ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root 50G 3.5G 44G 8% /
tmpfs 932M 0 932M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485M 39M 421M 9% /boot
122 / 753
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home 26G 215M 24G 1% /home
/dev/sdb1 20G 172M 19G 1% /mnt
6. Disk partition tool parted

Due to environmental restrictions, it is impossible to have a disk of 2T or above size, so we can only simulate the environment and use the parted partition tool to partition

[root@Centos ~]# parted /dev/sdb mklabel gpt
将磁盘转换成 gpt 的格式
[root@Centos ~]# parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary 0 200(200M)
Warning: The resulting partition is not properly aligned for best
performance.
Ignore/Cancel? Ignore
[root@Centos ~]# parted /dev/sdb p 打印分区表信息
Model: VMware, VMware Virtual S (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1074MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 200MB 200MB primary
[root@Centos ~]# parted /dev/sdb mkpart primary 201 1073
分区并设置大小
Information: You may need to update /etc/fstab.
[root@Centos ~]# parted /dev/sdb p 打印分区表信息
Model: VMware, VMware Virtual S (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 1074MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 17.4kB 200MB 200MB primary
2 201MB 1073MB 871MB primary
[root@Centos ~]# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
mke2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
123 / 753
Stride=0 blocks, Stripe width=0 blocks
48960 inodes, 195296 blocks
9764 blocks (5.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
Maximum filesystem blocks=67371008
24 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
2040 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729
Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (4096 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done
This filesystem will be automatically checked every 36 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
[root@Centos ~]# tune2fs -c -1 /dev/sdb1
tune2fs 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
Setting maximal mount count to -1
[root@Centos ~]# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
[root@Centos ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root 50G 3.5G 44G 8% /
tmpfs 932M 0 932M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 485M 39M 421M 9% /boot
/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_home 26G 215M 24G 1% /home
/dev/sdb1 185M 5.6M 170M 4% /mnt
[root@cairui ~]# parted --help
Usage: parted [OPTION]... [DEVICE [COMMAND [PARAMETERS]...]...]
Apply COMMANDs with PARAMETERS to DEVICE. If no COMMAND(s) are given, run in
interactive mode.

OPTIONs:
-h, --help displays this help message
-l, --list lists partition layout on all block devices
-m, --machine displays machine parseable output
-s, --script never prompts for user intervention
-v, --version displays the version
-a, --align=[none|cyl|min|opt] alignment for new partitions

COMMANDs:
align-check TYPE N check partition N for TYPE(min|opt)
alignment
check NUMBER do a simple check on the file system
cp [FROM-DEVICE] FROM-NUMBER TO-NUMBER copy file system to another partition
help [COMMAND] print general help, or help on
COMMAND
mklabel,mktable LABEL-TYPE create a new disklabel (partition
table)
mkfs NUMBER FS-TYPE make a FS-TYPE file system on
partition NUMBER
mkpart PART-TYPE [FS-TYPE] START END make a partition
mkpartfs PART-TYPE FS-TYPE START END make a partition with a file system
move NUMBER START END move partition NUMBER
name NUMBER NAME name partition NUMBER as NAME
print [devices|free|list,all|NUMBER] display the partition table,
available devices, free space, all found partitions, or a particular
partition
quit exit program
rescue START END rescue a lost partition near START
and END
resize NUMBER START END resize partition NUMBER and its file
system
rm NUMBER delete partition NUMBER
select DEVICE choose the device to edit
set NUMBER FLAG STATE change the FLAG on partition NUMBER
toggle [NUMBER [FLAG]] toggle the state of FLAG on partition
NUMBER
unit UNIT set the default unit to UNIT
version display the version number and
copyright information of GNU Parted

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