How to create a primary partition in CentOS 7?
In CentOS 7, you can use either the fdisk command or the parted command to create a primary partition.
The steps to create a primary partition using the fdisk command are as follows:
- Open the terminal and log in as the root user.
- Partition the device /dev/sdX.
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- Enter the partition number (e.g. 1 for the first partition).
- The default starting sector number is 1.
- Specify the partition size by using +size, +sizeM, or +sizeG to indicate the size (e.g. +100M indicates 100MB).
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The steps to create a primary partition using the parted command are as follows:
- Open the terminal and log in as the root user.
- divide /dev/sdX
- Create a msdos label.
- Create a primary partition with ext4 file system from 1MiB to 100MiB.
- Create a primary ext4 partition.
- stop
After completing the above steps, the system will create and format the primary partition. Please remember to back up important data before partitioning to prevent data loss.