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[ Each command is worth one mark. ]
1st COMMAND: _____________________________________mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb2
2nd COMMAND: _____________________________________e2label /dev/sdb2 BACKUP
3rd COMMAND: _____________________________________tune2fs -c 50 /dev/sdb2
4th COMMAND: _____________________________________e2fsck -ycfv /dev/sdb2
5th COMMAND: _____________________________________mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt</pre> 2. Describe the process to create two partitions on drive sdb (1 and 2), make them into physical volumes, create a volume group named seneca containing sdb1 and a logical volume (500M) named home. Format the logical volume as an ext3 filesystem and label it myhome. Then extent the logical volume by 1GB and resize the filesystem the file system to fill it.<pre> 1st COMMAND: fdisk /dev/sdb 2nd COMMAND: pvcreate /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2 3rd COMMAND: vgcreate seneca /dev/sdb1 4th COMMAND: lvcreate -n home --size 500M seneca 5th COMMAND: mkfs.ext3 /dev/seneca/home 6th COMMAND: mount /dev/seneca/home /mnt 7th COMMAND: e2label /dev/seneca/home myhome 8th COMMAND: vgextend seneca /dev/sdb2 9th COMMAND: lvextend -L +1G /dev/seneca/home 10th COMMAND: resize2fs /dev/seneca/home +------[ Volume Group (VG) - lvmdsk ]------+ | +--[ PV - hda1 ]---+ +--[ PV - hdb1 ]--+ | | | PE PE PE PE PE PE| | PE PE PE PE PE | | | +------------------+ +-----------------+ | | | | | | | | | | +-----------------+ | | | | +----------------+ | | | | | | | | | +-[ LV - var ]-+ +-[ LV - home ]-+ | | | LE LE LE LE | | LE LE LE LE | | | +--------------+ +---------------+ | +---------------------------------------------+ source: http://focalinux.cipsga.org.br/guia/inic_interm/ch-disc.htm </pre>[[Image:lvm.png]]<pre>3. Steps to compile the linux kernel 1st make mrproper 2nd make oldconfig 3rd make menuconfig 4th make 5th make modules_install
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