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:
* STATE OF THE ART CURRICULUM DESIGN:
* NEW:
* REFERENCES:
* ILLUSTRATIONS:
* PHOTOS:
* PAPERBACK:
* TRANSPARENT FRONT PAGE:
* BLACK OR WHITE BACK PAGE COVER:
* BINDED: BLACK OR WHITE COIL:
* 150 WHITE PAGES: 8x11"
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