LCL 13 - partitioning and formatting with fdisk and mkfs - Linux Command Line tutorial for forensics

Linux Command Line tutorial for forensics - 13 - partitioning and formatting with fdisk and mkfs


This course was designed to provide information on how to use the command line environment in a Unix/Linux system to accomplish tasks such as imaging, data acquisition, and archiving. This course covers the basics of Unix/Linux commands that allow users to view and edit text files, obtain hardware and system information, partitioning and formatting, process related commands, manipulating disks and partitions, imaging, archiving, logical acquisition, live system response, and basic networking.

This would be beneficial for folks who are interested in digital forensics, incidence response, system administration, ethical hacking, or just plain linux. This course covers material for beginners as well as for advanced users. This course would also be helpful if you are considering taking the CompTIA Linux+ certification test.

Video timeline
00:00 intro
01:11 disktype
02:27 fdisk
12:11 mkfs
17:46 recap

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[BogyVSsand]

Great stuff.
I like that you go in depth as much ax you can.

[raideno]

Hello why we have to use mkfs to setup the filesystem even if we set one with the "t" command in fdisk ?
Great video keep going !

[teklehaimanotaman]

Thank you very much for the great video on partitioning. I am new to Linux and what I know is that the primary is for the software Linux if I am not mistaken. So why do you need more than 1 primary partition? Recently, I completely deleted windows 10 and installed ubuntu. Now, I want to partition my storage, so how many parts is the optimal? Is it possible to do it following your tutorial?
Thank you.

[elpianista]

Great video, congrats. Your video really helped me understand this confusing concepts. I just have a clumsy question: can you have a partition type 7 (NTFS) and make the file system as, for instance, Ext4?