linuxexpert-practice-labs/labs/rhcsa/5-1-gpt-partitions

RHCSA 5.1: GPT partitions

A GPT partition table, partitions of a given size and type, and deleting a partition.

Before you start

The lab adds two 1 GiB spare disks. They're image files under /var/lib/le-lab/disks/, attached again at every boot.

• /dev/loop40 is empty: it stands in for the guide's /dev/vdb, so its partitions are /dev/loop40p1 and /dev/loop40p2.
• /dev/loop41 already has a GPT table with a 500 MiB partition and a 300 MiB Linux LVM partition, as tasks 1 and 2 leave /dev/loop40. Task 3 works on it, so the first two tasks' results can stay.

Tasks

1. Give /dev/loop40 a GPT partition table and create a 500 MiB partition on it.
2. With fdisk, add a second partition of 300 MiB of type Linux LVM beside the first one.
3. Delete the second partition of /dev/loop41 again, leaving its first partition as it is.

Hints

• parted /dev/loop40 mklabel gpt, mkpart, print; or gdisk.
• In fdisk: n, size +300M, t, type lvm (or its number from L), w. fdisk -l /dev/loop40, lsblk /dev/loop40.
• fdisk: d, 2, w; or parted /dev/loop41 rm 2.