Document Conventions - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX - ONLINE STORAGE RECONFIGURATION GUIDE BETA Configuration Manual

5, along with first-hand experience in managing storage devices in Linux.
Before consulting this book, verify if your host bus adapter vendor or hardware vendor have
their own documentation. It is recommended that you consult such documents before reading
this manual.

1.1. Document Conventions

Certain words in this manual are represented in different fonts, styles, and weights. This
highlighting indicates that the word is part of a specific category. The categories include the
following:
Courier font
Courier font represents
When shown as below, it indicates computer output:
Desktop about.html
Mail backupfiles
bold Courier font
Bold Courier font represents text that you are to type, such as:
If you have to run a command as root, the root prompt (
# gconftool-2
italic Courier font
Italic Courier font represents a variable, such as an installation directory:
install_dir/bin/
bold font
Bold font represents application programs and text found on a graphical interface.
When shown like this: OK , it indicates a button on a graphical application interface.
Additionally, the manual uses different strategies to draw your attention to pieces of information.
In order of how critical the information is to you, these items are marked as follows:
Note
,
commands file names and paths
logs
mail
Document Conventions
, and
prompts
paulwesterberg.png
reports
service jonas start
) precedes the command:
#
.
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