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Linux Administration Handbook, Second Edition
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Linux Administration Handbook, Second Edition

by Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein
October 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1040 pages
33h 24m
English
Pearson
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7.10. Exercises

E7.1

Which SCSI connectors go with which variants of the specification? Ignoring the differences in connectors, what are the compatibility issues among the various SCSI versions?

E7.2

What’s the difference between formatting a disk and partitioning a disk? What’s the difference between partitioning and creating a filesystem?

E7.3

List the command and arguments you would use to create a filesystem on a disk in each of the following circumstances.

a. The disk will be used as storage for home directories.

b. The disk will be used as swap space.

c. The disk will store the mail queue at a large spam house.

d. The disk will hold a MySQL InnoDB database.

E7.4

The LVM tool suite is powerful but can be confusing ...

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