December 2018
Beginner
826 pages
22h 54m
English
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Hardware and Disks
The following topics will be covered in this chapter:
- Determining hardware
- Testing hardware
- The role of the kernel
- Disk configuration on Linux
- The filesystem hierarchy
- Configuring a blank disk and mounting it
- Re-configuring a disk using LVM
- Using systemd-mount and fstab
- Disk encryption and working with encryption at rest
- Current filesystem formats
- Upcoming filesystem formats