Red Hat Certified System Administrator: File Systems and Device Management

Overview/Description
Target Audience
Prerequisites
Expected Duration
Lesson Objectives
Course Number
Expertise Level

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Overview/Description
As a System Administrator you need to know how to manipulate file systems, partitions, and volumes in order to effectively build and expand Linux systems. In this course you will learn about the different Linux filesystems and how to use them. You will also learn about the Physical and Logical disks and volumes and how they can be manipulated and used in multiple configurations within a Linux system. This course is one of a series in the Skillsoft learning path that covers the objectives for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 RHCSA exam (EX200).

Target Audience
Established IT professionals who wish to acquire job skills and to be trained specifically to pass the Red Hat RHCSA EX200 certification exam.

Prerequisites
None

Expected Duration (hours)
2.2

Lesson Objectives

Red Hat Certified System Administrator: File Systems and Device Management

start the course

describe the various supported file systems

identify the file systems of mounted and external drives

mount and unmount various file systems

configure the system to mount a file system at boot

use an encrypted file system

mount an encrypted file system at boot and using a fully encrypted file system

control the automatic mounting of file systems when devices are plugged in and safely unmount file systems

add new partitions or additional swap space non-destructively

create a file system on a physical disk

use tools to create, delete, list and manage MBR based partitions

resize a MBR based partition

change the label of a partition

mount and unmount iSCSI Network Area Storage

use tools to create, delete, and list GPT based partitions

using and compressing swap partitions or files

identify and describe LVM configuration for Volumes

use basic LVM commands to create and remove volumes

manage free space in a storage pool and allocate space as required

assign logical and physical volumes to a volume group

use LVM tiered storage to use faster SSDs with HDDs to create fast "hybrid" storage

create a snapshot of a volume

backup and restore volumes

use shell commands to manage LVM storage

create and configure a basic RAID 0, 1, and 5 volume

resize a RAID volume

create an XFS LVM Filesystem and then mount the partition so it will be available even after rebooting

Course Number:
lu_rhel_a08_it_enus

Expertise Level
Intermediate