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Managing Local Storage and Filesystems
In the previous chapters, we learned about security and system administration. In this chapter, we will focus on the administration of resources—specifically, storage administration.
Storage administration is an important part of keeping a system running: the system logs can eat available space, new applications might require additional storage to be set up for them (even on separate disks to improve performance), and such issues might require our action in order to solve them.
In this chapter, we will learn about the following topics:
- Partitioning disks (MBR and GPT disks)
- Formatting and mounting filesystems
- Setting default mounts and options in fstab
- Using network filesystems with Network File System ...
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