Storage & Filesystems

Create, inspect, and modify disk partitions using fdisk, gdisk, and parted. Understand MBR vs GPT layouts.

Build and manage LVM stacks: physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes, and extending them.

Create XFS and ext4 filesystems, mount them, and make the mounts survive reboot via /etc/fstab.

Create swap partitions and swap files, activate them, and persist them across reboots.

Mount NFS exports and make them persistent. Read-only pilot topic — practice coming with Phase 3.4.