Linux: Storage Systems

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Free Online Course: Linux: Storage Systems provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3-4 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Linux: Storage Systems is taught by Kevin Dankwardt.

Overview
  • Learn how to manage partitions, logical and physical volumes, and file systems in Linux.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    • What you should know
    • Using the exercise files
    1. Disk Partitions, Formatting, and Mounting
    • Basic commands for storage partitions
    • Create, mount, and unmount file systems
    • Use block device attributes
    • File system types: ext4, Btrfs, and XFS
    • Make file systems
    • Mount file systems during boot
    • Mount file systems on demand
    • Challenge: Formatting and mounting
    • Solution: Formatting and mounting
    2. Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
    • Logical Volume Manager
    • Physical volumes
    • Volume groups
    • Logical volumes
    • Challenge: Making logical volumes
    • Solution: Making logical volumes
    3. Security and Resource Constraints
    • Restore default SELinux file contexts
    • Configure encrypted partitions
    • Manage file system access control lists
    • File permission problems
    • Using SUID, attributes, and read-only
    • User and group disk quotas
    • Challenge: SELinux, LUKS, ACLs, and quotas
    • Solution: SELinux, LUKS, ACLs, and quotas
    4. Special Storage Features and Considerations
    • Configure and manage swap space
    • Configure remote block-storage devices
    • Use targetcli
    • Backup and recovery strategies
    • Use backup tools
    • Assemble partitions as RAID devices
    • Linux file system features and flags
    • Configure file system features and flags
    • Challenge: Swap space, rsync, and RAID
    • Solution: Swap space, rsync, and RAID
    5. Networked File Systems
    • Network File System (NFS)
    • Distributed file systems
    • Cluster file systems
    • SSHFS file system
    • Challenge: NFS behavior and SSHFS
    • Solution: NFS behavior and SSHFS
    Conclusion
    • Next steps