Linux Advanced File System Management (LPIC-2)

By Andrew Mallett
Course 3 of 3 in preparation for the LPIC-2 201 exam covering objectives 203 and 204.
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Apr 24, 2015
Duration
4h 10m
Table of contents
Introduction
Course Contents 6m Using UUIDs and Why It Is Important 7m Summary 2m
Linux File System Overview
Introducing File Systems 6m Using SSHFS to Mount Remote Systems 3m Understanding the fstab Fields 4m Displaying Mounted Files Systems 5m Hands-on Displaying File Systems 4m SWAP or Virtual Memory 6m Summary 2m
Maintaining a Linux File System
Introduction 4m Using fsck on CentOS 7 6m Understanding mkfs, tune2fs, and dumpe2fs 4m Using the Extended Toolset in the CentOS 7 File System 7m Using debugfs to Look Inside Your File System 4m Using smartmontools to Monitor Your Physical Disk 8m Summary 1m
Managing XFS File Systems
What Is XFS? 4m Creating XFS File Systems 4m Using xfs_repair 3m Backup and Restore with xfsdump and xfsrestore 5m Summary 2m
Discovering btrfs
Introduction 5m Creating a Simple File System Volume 3m Understanding CoW 4m Creating Multi-disk Volumes 8m Summary 2m
Creating and Configuring File System Options
Introduction 5m Auto-mounting Shares and Exports with autofs 8m Working with ISO Files 8m Disk Encryption with LUKS 10m Summary 2m
Configuring RAID
Introduction 5m RAID Partitioning 4m Creating a RAID Device 6m Persisting RAID Configuration 6m RAID with btrfs 4m Summary 2m
Adjusting Storage Device Access
Introduction 5m An Inside Look at Storage Device Numbering 4m Tuning Device Access 4m Offloading to Write-Cache Controllers 7m Configuring an iSCSI Target 8m Demo: Setting up the iSCSI Target 6m The iSCSI Initiator 5m Summary 2m
Logical Volume Manager
Introduction 4m Creating Logical Volumes 6m Extending Logical Volumes 5m Using vgchange to Activate Volume Groups 5m Instant Backups with Snapshots 8m Summary 1m
Description
Course info
Level
Intermediate
Updated
Apr 24, 2015
Duration
4h 10m
Description

As the final course for exam 201, we look at two objectives: File System and Devices, and Advanced Storage Device Administration. We are going to take on the discovery journey of XFS, BTRFS, and EXT4 before moving into iSCSI and RAID.

About the author
Andrew Mallett
About the author

Andrew is a committed evangelist of the Linux Operating System and the concept of community and freedom that it provides. He has worked as a technical trainer since 1995 and has taught throughout the world, including Australia, the US, Germany and Eastern Europe. Andrew started teaching Linux in 2004 when Novell acquired SUSE and has been a long time supporter of Novell and provides SYSOP support the the Certifed Novell Instructor community on Linux. Andrew founded theurbanpenguin and has been submitting video training material to his YouTube channel since 2009 and currently has over 8,500 subscribers and 1.6 Million views. Andrew has had two publications with Packt: Citrix Access Gateway VPX Essentials (2012) and Citrix XenApp (2013).

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