Overview
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Master disk systems and system backup techniques for Linux.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Manage server storage with Linux
- What you should know
- OS installation
- Lab setup
- Install Guest Additions
- List, create, and delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks
- Create parititons using Parted
- Backup the partition table
- Resize partitions without losing data
- Manage LVM volumes and volume groups
- Extend existing logical volumes
- Reduce existing logical volumes
- Replace a physical volume
- About LVM snapshots
- Create LVM roll forward snapshots for backups
- Create LVM rollback snapshots
- Create EXT file systems
- Migrate EXT3 to EXT4
- Repair EXT file systems
- EXT optimizations
- Create and repair XFS file systems
- Using System Storage Manager
- Mount file systems at boot by ID or label
- Create additional swap partitions
- Create temporary swap files
- Auto-enable swap partitions
- Change system swapiness
- MDRAID or DMRAID?
- Create an LVM RAID 1
- Create an LVM RAID 5
- Backup and restore an EXT file system
- Archive files
- Compress files
- Next steps
