Disk Partitioning Blog Introduction Recently, I had a challenge of downsizing the managed disks attached to the VM for cost savings, in doing this we had to create a new managed disk with the Standard HDD disk type and then partition the disk and create a mount point for the disk. In this blog post, we’ll explore the process of how we can partition the disk in Linux. Disk partitioning allows us to divide a hard disk into multiple logical storage units, providing better organization and management of your disk space.