{"id":394,"date":"2026-05-01T01:24:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/?p=394"},"modified":"2026-05-01T02:18:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T02:18:31","slug":"lab-7-storage-management","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/2026\/05\/01\/lab-7-storage-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 7 &#8211; Storage Management"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This lab introduced me to disk management and partitioning in Linux using command-line tools and virtual machines. I learned how to identify existing storage devices and partitions using commands like <em>ls \/dev\/sd*<\/em>, <em>fdisk -l<\/em>, and <em>parted -l<\/em>, then compare system changes after adding a new virtual disk. I also created and formatted a new partition with an ext4 filesystem, mounted it to a directory, and verified it using <em>df<\/em>. A challenge was understanding how partitions, filesystems, and mount points connect and how changes appear across different disk commands. Overall, it helped me understand how Linux manages storage at a low level and how new disks are prepared for use in a system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lab introduced me to disk management and partitioning in Linux using command-line tools and virtual machines. I learned how to identify existing storage devices and partitions using commands like ls \/dev\/sd*, fdisk -l, and parted -l, then compare system changes after adding a new virtual disk. I also created and formatted a new partition&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/2026\/05\/01\/lab-7-storage-management\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":30558,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30558"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/nicolascook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}