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> Yes, fundamentals of mount, dd, and whatnot are covered in level 1. It
> doesn't mean, however, that the same skills aren't required to accomplish
> higher level tasks in Level 2 (in other words, to manually fix a
> filesystem and such, you still have to use mount as a Sr admin even if
> mounting CDs and such were covered in Level 1, as an example). So, the
> stated objective isn't "know how to use mount", it's "maintain a
> filesystem by utilizing tools such as mount" and such. Specifics on the
> use of an already covered tool won't be focused on during item writing.
> Instead it will focus on accomplishing a higher goal. Does this make
> sense?
>
Well, one good thing to cover (if not covered in Level 1) is adding swap
with no free disk partitions:
1. determine a filesystem w/ space enough to add swap (below assumes
/usr has sufficient free space)
2. touch /usr/swap
3. dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/swap bs=1024 count=10000
4. mkswap /usr/swap
5. swapon /usr/swap
You can do the same if you need to mount an iso to test it:
(assuming you've d/l or created an iso w/ mkisofs):
mount -oloop /usr/my.iso /mnt/iso
before I decided to switch even one partition to reiserfs some months
back, I tested the same way:
touch reiserfs.test
dd if=/dev/zero of=/usr/reiserfs.test bs=1024 count=10000
mkreiserfs /usr/reiserfs.test
mount -oloop /usr/reiserfs.test /mnt/reisertest
the mkisofs command could also be used above to create an iso of part of
the filesystem (I do this for update CDs for my customers). There are
literally hundreds of fs type things (ext2, reiserfs, swap, iso) where
these things come in handy. Level 2 should have these things down cold.
fsck should also be well known. where are alternate superblocks? 8193,
16385, etc.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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