Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 5 Administration Unleashed

Chapter 7. Managing Storage

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Understanding Partitioning
• Understanding LVM
• Understanding RAID
• Understanding Clustering and GFS
• Using Access Control Lists
• Using Disk Quotas

Managing storage is an important responsibility. The right solution works seamlessly with little gratitude. The wrong solution can lead to many headaches and late nights of trying to recover from failed file systems or inadequate storage allocation.

During installation, you are asked which partitioning method to use. You must choose to remove Linux partitions on selected drives and create the default layout, remove all partitions on selected drives and create the default layout, use free space on selected drives and create the default layout, or create a custom ...