RHCSA Lab: NVMe Disk Partitioning in Linux | Create, Format & Mount Storage

In this hands-on lab, you'll learn how to create and manage disk partitions on an NVMe drive in Linux, just like a real system administrator. Many modern servers and cloud environments use NVMe storage devices, which are named differently from traditional disks like /dev/sda. In this tutorial, we work with an NVMe disk (/dev/nvme1n1) and walk through the complete process of preparing it for use. By the end of this lab, you’ll know how to: ✅ Identify a new NVMe disk ✅ Create a partition using fdisk ✅ Format the partition with the XFS filesystem ✅ Mount the partition temporarily ✅ Configure persistent mounts using /etc/fstab ✅ Verify disk and mount configuration These are core RHCSA storage objectives and real-world Linux administration skills.