Installed Documentation; Useful Websites; Related Books - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 3 - INTRODUCTION TO SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION Administration Manual

Chapter 5. Managing Storage

5.10.1. Installed Documentation

The following resources are installed in the course of a typical Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation,
and can help you learn more about the subject matter discussed in this chapter.
man page — NFS configuration file format.
• exports(5)
man page — File system information configuration file format.
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fstab(5)
man page — Disable swap partitions.
• swapoff(8)
man page — Report disk space usage on mounted file systems.
• df(1)
man page — Partition table maintenance utility program.
• fdisk(8)
,
• mkfs(8) mke2fs(8)
man page — Test a device for bad blocks.
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badblocks(8)
• quotacheck(8)
creates disk quota files.
man page — Disk quota maintenance utility program.
• edquota(8)
man page — Disk quota reporting utility program.
• repquota(8)
man page — Software RAID configuration file format.
• raidtab(5)
man page — Software RAID array creation utility program.
•
mkraid(8)
man page — Software RAID array management utility program.
•
mdadm(8)
man page — Logical Volume Management overview.
• lvm(8)
man page — Persistent storage device access.
• devlabel(8)

5.10.2. Useful Websites

http://www.pcguide.com/ — A good site for all kinds of information on various storage technolo-
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gies.
http://www.tldp.org/ — The Linux Documentation Project has HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs that
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provide good overviews of storage technologies as they relate to Linux.

5.10.3. Related Books

The following books discuss various issues related to storage and are good resources for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux system administrators.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Installation Guide; Red Hat, Inc. — Contains instructions on parti-
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tioning hard drives during the Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation process as well as an overview
of disk partitions.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux Reference Guide; Red Hat, Inc. — Contains detailed information on
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the directory structure used in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and an overview of NFS.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration Guide; Red Hat, Inc. — Includes chapters on
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file systems, RAID, LVM,
Linux System Administration: A User's Guide by Marcel Gagne; Addison Wesley Professional —
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Contains information on user and group permissions, file systems and disk quota, NFS and Samba.
man pages — File system creation utility programs.
man page — Verifies block and inode usage for users and groups and optionally
, partitioning, disk quotas, NFS, and Samba.
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