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Linux Troubleshooting: Troubleshoot Storage Issues
In this lab, you’ll practice using the Linux file system. When you’re finished, you’ll be able to troubleshoot basic Linux storage issues.
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Get Started in the Lab Environment
Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Create Directories and Display Storage Consumption
To start this lab, you will be taught how to check disk usage, and you will also create directories with random files to illustrate an increase in space used.
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Check Filesystem Usage and Verify Free Disk Space
You will learn more about commands that display disk usage, and also will gain a better understanding of how the various flags affect the output of your commands.
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Troubleshoot a Full Disk
You will learn how to identify what files are taking up the most space.
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Create a FileSystem and Troubleshoot Write Issues
Previously, you learned how you would diagnose and free up space on a full disk. You will now create a filesystem, simulate a write issue, use those previously learned skills to diagnose it being full, and will learn how to check for further issues.
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Did you know?
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