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, e2label, resize2fs
- Using UUIDs (universally unique identifiers)
- 128-bit numbers make hard disk management easier
- add UUID= entry in /etc/fstab
- Linux file systems support UUIDs, Windows not so much
- Commands: blkid, vol_id, uuidgen, tune2fs, findfs
- Working with Logical Volumes (LVM)
- Physical Volumes (eg partitions) are joined into Volume Groups
- Logical Volumes are drawn from Volume Groups
- Commands: pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate