Fall 2008 SYA710 Weekly Schedule

The tentative weekly schedule shown here is subject to change.

Week 1 (Sept 1) - Intro to SYA710 / Installing Linux

• Course introduction
• Introduction to Open Source and Linux
• Introduction to our labs
  • Lab T2107 - data recovery cards
• Activities for this week
  • Set up your accounts as described on the LUX Communication page.
  • Complete the SYA710 Lab #0 and blog about the experience.
  • Lab #0 is due before midnight Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Week 2 (Sept 8) - File Systems and Logical Volume Management

• Activities for this week
  • Complete the SYA710 Lab01 and blog about the experience.
  • Lab01 is due before midnight Wednesday, September 17, 2008
• Concepts/Commands learned/used in this week's lecture
  • File System: A way to organize data for efficient and easy access
  • Containers: Objects (partitions, files, volumes) that hold file systems
  • Virtual File System: Allows transparent access to files on different file systems
  • Commands: mkfs, fsck, fdisk, mount, umount