SYA710 Lab01

SYA710 Lab #1

PART A (Container is a file):

Perform the following steps:

1. Power on your PC and boot up Fedora 8 Test and login as 'joker' with password 'seneca99'.
2. Open a console window and switch to superuser with this command:
   
   su -
   
   
3. Create a regular file (filled with zeros) which will be the container for our file system. Use this command:
   
   dd if=/dev/zero of=fakedisk bs=1024 count=10000
   
   
4. Use the losetup command to associate your file with /dev/loop0 like this:
   
   losetup /dev/loop0 fakedisk
   
   
5. Now create a file system in the container:
   
   mkfs -t ext2 /dev/loop0
   
   
6. Make a directory to be a mount point for the file system:
   
   mkdir /mnt1
   
   
7. Mount the file system:
   
   mount /dev/loop0 /mnt1
   
   
8. Record the output of the following command:
   
   df -Thi /dev/loop0
   
   
9. Unmount the file system
   
   umount /mnt1
   
   
10. Delete the loop device
    
    losetup -d /dev/loop0
    
    
11. Delete the fakedisk file.
    
12. Answer the questions 1 to 4 in PART D, then do PART B.
    

PART B (Container is a partition):

Perform the following steps:

1. Use fdisk to make primary partition #4 of about 1GB size.
   
2. Inform the kernel of the change in the partition table with the command:
   
   partprobe
   
   
3. Make an ext3 file system in the new partition:
   
   mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sda4
   
   
4. Make a new directory (mkdir /mnt1) and mount the file system onto it like this
   
   mount /dev/sda4 /mnt1
   
   
5. Now copy the contents of your /home directory to this new file system like this:
   
   cp -a /home/* /mnt1
   
   
6. Add the following line for your /etc/fstab file
   

   /dev/sda4 	/home 	ext3 	defaults 	1 3

7. Unmount /mnt1
8. Close the console window and logout of joker.
9. Login as root and open a console window.
10. Enter the command
    
    mount -a
    
    
11. Enter the 'df -Thi' command to verify that /dev/sda4 is mounted as /home.
12. Close the console window and logout.
13. Login as joker, open a console window and use the df command to verify that /dev/sda4 is mounted at /home.
14. Answer the rest of the questions in PART D.