Reading Time: 4 minutesUnifying file access across multiple systems is a core skill for any sysadmin. This article will provide an overview of how to work with NFS, providing some practical examples. NFS is a client/server protocol: The NFS server is responsible for providing shares, and the NFS client mounts these shares using the network. Prepare the NFS…
Reading Time: 6 minutesResizing Filesystems on RHEL 8 shows some examples of resizing filesystems using Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Warning: Before anything, you must understand that this task can be hazardous. All the steps that are being performed here are being performed in a lab environment using a virtual machine. So, if you plan to do it in…
Reading Time: 9 minutesLogical Volume Management (LVM) lets you treat physical storage devices as flexible pools, making resizing, snapshotting, and reallocating space seamless. All the provided examples will be made under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. First and foremost, we’ve written an article on MBR and GPT partition tables. Click here to access the article. Additionally, if you…
Reading Time: 8 minutesCreating Disk Partitions and Filesystems on RHEL 8 shows all the necessary steps to create a disk partition, a filesystem, and mount it to allow the administrator to use it. Before moving forward, we’ve written an article about the partition table schemes MBR and GPT. We highly recommend that you check it out before taking…
Reading Time: 5 minutesMaster Boot Record (MBR) and GUID Partition Table (GPT) on RHEL 8 show essential details of each partition scheme used by the majority of Linux flavors. All the details here will be shown using Red Hat Linux Enterprise 8. Master Boot Record (MBR) MBR is the traditional partitioning scheme used by legacy BIOS systems. It…
Reading Time: 3 minutesLogrotate is designed to ease the administration of systems that generate large numbers of log files. It allows automatic rotation, compression, removal, and mailing of log files. Each log filemay be handled daily, weekly, monthly, or when it grows too large. It prevents logs from growing indefinitely, helps manage disk usage, and keeps log directories…