Linux Level 2 Training Course

Advanced Permissions

• Special Permission: setuid
• Special Permission: setgid
• Special Permission: sticky bit
• Access Control Lists

Administering Partitions

• Device names
• Virtual filesystems vs. physical filesystems
• Why have partitions?
• Which partitions should you create?
• Creating and modifying partitions with fdisk
• Creating and modifying partitions with parted
• The mkfs command
• The mke2fs command
• Create a partition label

Mounting filesystems

• What is mounting?
• The mount command
• Mount rules
• The umount command
• umount rules
• Mounting automatically at boot
• The mount -a command
• The umount -a command
• Review: the df command
• Mounting CDs and floppy disks
• Swap partitions and files

Administering the Filesystem

• Filesystem details
• The mke2fs command
• The ext2 and ext3 filesystems
• Why filesystems break
• Fixing filesystems with fsck
• fsck examples
• Displaying filesystem attributes
• Modifying filesystem attributes

RAID

• RAID basics
• Hardware & software RAIDs
• RAID levels
• The mdadm command
• RAID disk recovery

Logical Volumes

• What is LVM?
• LVM terms
• Initializing hard disks or partitions
• Creating a Volume Group
• Activating and deactivating a Volume Group
• Deleting a Volume Group
• Deleting a Physical Volume from a Volume Group
• Adding a Physical Volume to a Volume Group
• Displaying Volume Group information
• Displaying Physical Volume information
• Creating a Logical Volume
• Displaying Logical Volume information
• Using a Logical Volume
• Extending a Logical Volume
• Reducing a Logical Volume
• Making backups using snapshot
• Deleting a Logical Volume

Network Filesystems

• What is NFS?
• NFS benefits
• NFS daemons
• Starting server daemons
• Setting up a NFS server
• Setting up a NFS client
• Using automount

Disk Quotas

• Configuring a filesystem to support disk quotas
• Initializing the disk quota database
• Assigning quotas to user accounts
• Assigning quotas to group accounts
• Working with soft limits
• Displaying quota information
• Issuing warnings
• Turning quota checking on and off

Hardware Management

• Compatibility
• Device Nodes
• Displaying hardware information
• Configuring hardware

Advanced X Configuration

• X Window System components
• The process of starting X Window Server
• X Window security with xhost
• X Window security with xauth
• X Window security with ssh
• X Font Server

Shell Scripting

• Scripting basics
• Review of Variable Usage
• Review of Quoting
• Arguments
• if statements
• Test conditions
• while loops
• until loops
• The break statement
• The continue statement
• The case statement
• for loops
• Exit Status
• Functions
• Advanced Input/Output
• Signals
• Debugging

Fundamentals of TCP/IP

• TCP/IP-based protocols
• IP addresses
• Subnetting
• IP routing
• DNS
• DHCP

TCP/IP Configuration

• Configuring a network interface
• Global network settings
• DNS client settings
• The Name Service Switch configuration file
• Network configuration utilities

Printer Management

• CUPS
• LPD and LPRng
• Setting up a CUPS printer
• Printing Files
• Monitoring the print queue
• Canceling print jobs
• Specifying a default printer
• Printer classes
• Checking printer status
• Managing the print queue
• Printing with different priorities
• Controlling printer status
• Moving print jobs
• Recovering from printer problems
• Removing a printer

Troubleshooting

• User Access Problems
• System Boot Problems
• Problems with the X Window System
• Networking Problems
• Filesystem Problems
• Using the Troubleshooting Steps
• Using Recovery Run Levels
• The Rescue Environment

Appendix A - Preparing for Certification Exams

Appendix B - Preparing for RHCE and RHCT Exams

Appendix C - Preparing for the LPI Exams

Appendix D - Preparing for the Linux+ Exam