Lab 7 taught me about storage and partitions. ls /dev/sd was used to view my current hard disk devices, disk -l listed the current hard disk partitions, and the parted -l command showed the hard disk partition table. I also learned how to create a virtual hard disk as well as load it. Afterwards, mkfs.ext4 was utilized to create an ext4 filesystem.

The only trouble I ran into while completing this lab was the mounting process. However, this is due to user error and a poor understanding of the new commands. Now that I’ve finished this lab, I can easily create new hard drives and partitions as needed.