Curriculum Design and Instruction To Teach

Linux Administration: Basic Administration:

Adding A Disk:


Author: Charles Hayes:




This curriculum design and

instruction is for the Linux

administrator who must

efficiently solve technical

problems and maximize the

reliability and performance

of a production environment.

It addresses today's most

important Linux distributions

and most powerful new administrative

tools. It spells out detailed best

practices for every facet of system

administration, including storage

management, network design and

administration, web hosting,

software configuration management,

performance analysis, Windows

interoperability,m and much more.

Systems administrators will expecially

appreciate the thourough and up-to-date

subject of such topics such as DNS, LDAP,

secrutiy, and the Management of IT service

organizations:



Special Features Include:


* Phases For Conducting A Needs Assessment:

* Curriculum Design Supplement:

* Curriculum Design Plan:

* Lesson Plans:

* Instructional Goals:

* Instructional Objectives:

* Instructional Activities:

* Instructional Evaluation Techniques:

* Standard Vocabulary:

* A Limited Glimpse:








Topics Include:


* Basic Administration:

@ Adding A Disk:

A. Introduction:

B. Disk interfaces:

1. The PATA interface:

2. The SATA interface:

3. The SCSI interface:

4. Which is better, SCSI or IDE?

C. Disk geometry:

D. Linus filesystems:

1. Ext2fs and ext3fs:

2. ReiserFS:

3. XFS and JFS:

E. An overview of the disk installation

procedure:

1. Connecting the disk:

2. Formatting the disk:

3. Labeling and partitioning the

disk:

4. Creating filelsystems within

disk partitions:

5. Mounting the filesystems:

6. Setting up automatic mounting:

7. Enabling swapping:

F. hdparm: set IDE interface parmeters:

G. Fsck: check and repair filesystems:

H. Adding a disk: a step-by-step guide:

I. Advanced disk management: RAID and LVM:

1. Linux software RAID:

2. Logical volume management:

3. An example configuration with LVM and RAID:

4. Dealing with a failed disk:

5. Reallocating Storage space:

J. Mounting USB drives:

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