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Linux/Procedural/Disk_info.md

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+---
+categories:
+  - Linux
+tags: [systems-programming]
+---
+
+# Disk info routines
+
+## Current disk capacity
+
+```bash
+df -h
+```
+
+## Disk last modified
+
+```bash
+stat [disk_name]
+```

Operating_Systems/Disks/Filesystems.md

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda2
 
 ## Mounting a filesystem
 
-We can now mount our filesystems. Whem we mount, we must specify the following criteria with the request:
+We can now mount our filesystems. When we mount, we must specify the following criteria with the request:
 
 - The name of the device we want to mount.
   - This will be the name or the partition. However the names (`sda` etc) assigned by the OS can change. In these cases and with GPT-based partitions you can use the UUID.

Operating_Systems/Disks/Partitions.md

@@ -238,4 +238,12 @@ sda           8:0    0 465.7G  0 disk
 └─sda2        8:2    0 365.7G  0 part
 ```
 
+#### Naming a partition
+
+By default each partition will have its GUID as its name, but you can add a human friendly name with:
+
+```bash
+sudo e2label /dev/sda1 my_human_name
+```
+
 > Whilst we have created our partitions we cannot yet mount them. This is because we have not yet set up a filesystem on the partitions. This is the next step.