Step by Step creating partition in Red Hat Linux / How to create partition in Red Hat Linux environment ?

Create a 500MB new partition and should be mounted under /mountpoint as ext4 type.

Answer:

# fdisk -cul (for viewing the partition information)

# fdisk -cu /dev/vda

# m (for help)

# n (for new partition)

# e (for all spaces extended partition)

# Not p (because primary partition limit only 4)

# 3 (for partition number)

# Enter (for first cylinder)

# Enter (for last cylinder)

# w (for save)

# reboot (for rebooting the machine)

After rebooting the machine:    

# fdisk -cul (for viewing partition)

# fdisk -cu /dev/vda

# m (for help)

# n (for new partition)

# l (for logical partition)

# Enter (for first cylinder)

# +500M Enter (for last cylinder)

# w (for save)

# reboot (for rebooting the machine)

After rebooting the machine:    

# fdisk -cul (for viewing partition)

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/vda5

# mkdir -p /mountpoint (p for focely created one directory in another)

# mount /dev/vda5 /coss/new/

# df -h (for mounting information)

# vim /etc/fstab (for permanently mount)

  /dev/vda5         /mountpoint          ext4                       defaults               0 0

# mount -a

# df -h