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Revision as of 11:44, 26 June 2015
Contents
Preparing for Lab 1
Thinking Ahead
Bring Required Materials to Class
- Come prepared for labs:
- Removable SATA Drive ( min 250 GB )
- USB Stick ( min 8 GB )
- CENTOS 7 Full INSTALL DVD
- Lab 1 Logbook (Instructor can't sign-off lab without seeing lab-book notes)
- Access to Lab Instructions: printout, notebook, netbook, smartphone
Notes / Warnings
- Failure to properly following lab instructions may result in re-doing lab again!
- Hard Disk partitions are simply smaller logical storage units (containers) within a hard disk
- Advantages of Hard Disk Partitions:
- Separation of operating system files from data (easier recovery)
- Allows for booting multiple operating systems
- Separation of Data for efficient access and sharing
- Make certain to create the correct partitions:
- Primary Partitions (ext4):
- 30GB for / (i.e. "root")
- 40GB for /home
- 100GB for /var/lib/libvirt/images
- Swap Partition:
- 16GB (Note: "swap" must be selected from the drop down menu)
NOTE: Remember that the sizes are recorded in MB (eg. 30 GB = 30000 MB) and you should multiply GB by a factor of 1024 to get the correct size.
(eg. 30 GB x 1024 = 30720 MB) - Primary Partitions (ext4):
- Make certain to create the correct partitions:
