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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration - Second Edition

By : Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Pedro Ibáñez Requena, Miguel Pérez Colino, Scott McCarty
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Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Administration - Second Edition

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By: Pablo Iranzo Gómez, Pedro Ibáñez Requena, Miguel Pérez Colino, Scott McCarty

Overview of this book

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 becoming the standard for enterprise Linux used from data centers to the cloud, Linux administration skills are in high demand. With this book, you’ll learn how to deploy, access, tweak, and improve enterprise services on any system on any cloud running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. Throughout the book, you’ll get to grips with essential tasks such as configuring and maintaining systems, including software installation, updates, and core services. You’ll also understand how to configure the local storage using partitions and logical volumes, as well as assign and deduplicate storage. You’ll learn how to deploy systems while also making them secure and reliable. This book provides a base for users who plan to become full-time Linux system administrators by presenting key command-line concepts and enterprise-level tools, along with essential tools for handling files, directories, command-line environments, and documentation for creating simple shell scripts or running commands. With the help of command line examples and practical tips, you’ll learn by doing and save yourself a lot of time. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the confidence to manage the filesystem, users, storage, network connectivity, security, and software in RHEL 9 systems on any footprint.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
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Part 1 – Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
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Part 2 – Security with SSH, SELinux, a Firewall, and System Permissions
14
Part 3 – Resource Administration – Storage, Boot Process, Tuning, and Containers
21
Part 4 – Practical Exercises

Creating, moving, and removing physical volumes

Having our machine ready with the two new disks, vdb and vdc, as the Technical requirements section explains, we can get started on implementing the example diagram, as shown in Figure 13.4, on our machine.

The first step is not directly related to LVM, but it is still important in order to continue with the example. This first step involves partitioning the vdb disk. Let’s take a look at this with the tool to manage partitions, parted:

[root@rhel-instance ~]# parted /dev/vdb print
Error: /dev/vdb: unrecognised disk label
Model: Virtio Block Device (virtblk)
Disk /dev/vdb: 1074MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:

Important Note

Your disk device, if you are using a physical machine or a different disk driver, may be different. For example, if we were using SATA disks, it would be /dev/sdb instead of /dev/vdb.

The disk is completely unpartitioned, as we can see in the unrecognised...