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CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook
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CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

by Timothy Boronczyk
October 2016
Beginner
406 pages
7h 50m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from CentOS 7 Server Deployment Cookbook

Chapter 5. Managing Filesystems and Storage

This chapter contains the following recipes:

  • Viewing the size of files and available storage
  • Setting storage limits for users and groups
  • Creating a RAM disk
  • Creating a RAID
  • Replacing a device in a RAID
  • Creating a new LVM volume
  • Removing an existing LVM volume
  • Adding storage and growing an LVM volume
  • Working with LVM snapshots

Introduction

The recipes in this chapter focus on leveraging your CentOS system's storage to maintain availability, increase reliability, and to keep your data safe against inevitable disk failures. You'll learn how to determine how much space your files take up and how much storage is still available. Then, you'll see how to put limits in place to ensure that users use the system's storage ...

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