Task Description 📄

🌀 7.1: Elasticity Task

🔅Increase or Decrease the Size of Static Partition in Linux.

steps::::::::

for doing this task first we add a physical disk to the virtual machine

OF 10 Gib

for confirming disk is attached or not .

by fdisk -l command

now our next step is create partition in this harddisk

/dev/sdb

by using this command

fdisk /dev/sdb

sucessfully created partition of 4Gib

our next step is to format this newly created partition

formatted successfully

next step is to mount the partition

our next is to create a file in that folder to which partition attached .

next step is first we delete the partition for deleting we have to unmount the partition so that we create a new partition of increased size

now we create a new partition

size of new partition is increased .

now we again mount the partition to the same folder

our new partition is also is increased

now we check that our file is present or not

file and content also present both

now next step is to again reduce the partition

again we do same steps

unmouting the partition

for created partition with decrease size

first unmount the partition

checking for file system errors.

don’t need to delete the partition this time .

we reduce the partition size to 2 Gib size .

mount the partition to the same folder

/joshi

we check file is present or not

file and content both are present

and our task is also done successfully .