FileSystems

You may need a particular USB drive or key mounted to a fixed location, adding an entry into the fstab will allow for this but we cannot used the kernel device such as sbd1 as…

v This week I have come across another large UK blue-chip company using software RAID on SUSE Linux. This, I think, illustrates that there is still a need to look at managing software RAID from…

Using the command line is quick, effective and essential in Linux administration. Using LVM, Logical Volume Management, allows for volumes to dynamically grow as extra partitions or disks can be supplied to support the existing…

In previous tutorials we have look at managing LVM file-systems. In this article we will look at using snapshots with LVM to act as part of a backup solution. Maybe, you have a database or…