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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

By : Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Scott McCarty
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Administration

4.5 (4)
By: Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Scott McCarty

Overview of this book

Whether in infrastructure or development, as a DevOps or site reliability engineer, Linux skills are now more relevant than ever for any IT job, forming the foundation of understanding the most basic layer of your architecture. With Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) becoming the most popular choice for enterprises worldwide, achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification will validate your Linux skills to install, configure, and troubleshoot applications and services on RHEL systems. Complete with easy-to-follow tutorial-style content, self-assessment questions, tips, best practices, and practical exercises with detailed solutions, this book covers essential RHEL commands, user and group management, software management, networking fundamentals, and much more. You'll start by learning how to create an RHEL 8 virtual machine and get to grips with essential Linux commands. You'll then understand how to manage users and groups on an RHEL 8 system, install software packages, and configure your network interfaces and firewall. As you advance, the book will help you explore disk partitioning, LVM configuration, Stratis volumes, disk compression with VDO, and container management with Podman, Buildah, and Skopeo. By the end of this book, you'll have covered everything included in the RHCSA EX200 certification and be able to use this book as a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide. This book and its contents are solely the work of Miguel Pérez Colino, Pablo Iranzo Gómez, and Scott McCarty. The content does not reflect the views of their employer (Red Hat Inc.). This work has no connection to Red Hat, Inc. and is not endorsed or supported by Red Hat, Inc.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
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Section 2: Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions
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Section 3: Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers
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Section 4: Practical Exercises

Chapter 12: Managing Local Storage and Filesystems

In the previous chapters, we have learned about security and system administration. In this chapter, we will focus on the administration of resources—specifically, storage administration.

Storage administration is an important part of keeping a system running: the system logs can eat available space, new applications might require additional storage set up for them (even on separate disks to improve performance), and such issues may require our action in order to solve them.

In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:

  • Partitioning disks (Master Boot Record (MBR) and Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) Partition Table (GPT) disks)
  • Formatting and mounting filesystems
  • Setting default mounts and options in fstab
  • Using network filesystems with Network File System (NFS)

This will provide us basic knowledge to build upon our storage administration skills to keep our systems running.

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