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newbie to understand disks/volumes

phil_xxxJun 3 2013 — edited Jul 9 2013
just installed my oracle linue 6.4x86 64bit.

my machine has two disks :
a 512 gb SSD
and a 4 tb sata

when I look at disk utility in the desktop it shows my ssd as device /dev/sda

with volumes

EFI System Partition device /dev/sda1 mount point /boot/efi
Linux Basic Data Partition device /dev/sda2 mount point /boot
Linux LVM Partition /dev/sda3

sda3 is not listed with a mount point. also if I type cd /dev/sda3 it tells me this is not a directory.

At this stage I am wanting to create some files on the ssd using the free space ie /dev/sda3

I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction. do I have to create a new partition or format it somehow.

ps thanks in advance.
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