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CompTIA Linux+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam XK0-005), 2nd Edition
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CompTIA Linux+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam XK0-005), 2nd Edition

by Ted Jordan, Sandor Strohmayer
May 2023
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
800 pages
19h 12m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from CompTIA Linux+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, Second Edition (Exam XK0-005), 2nd Edition

CHAPTER 8

Configuring Volume Management

In this chapter, you will learn about

•   Implementing logical volume management (LVM)

•   Creating archives and performing compression

•   Enabling redundant array of independent disks (RAID)

The digital footprint per person is expected to grow to over 15 terabytes.

—Curtis Tearte, IBM

As filesystems grow and become larger, systems must be designed to make disk volumes manageable. Logical volumes allow administrators to create disk space without downtime, and RAID speeds data throughput and nullifies downtime by cutting the impact of disk failures. But it is still important to protect data by making backups.

Data compression improves data speeds through networks and reduces disk space use, thus cutting ...

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