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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)
1
Part 1 – Systems Administration – Software, User, Network, and Services Management
9
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 and extending logical volumes

We currently have several PVs created and two of them grouped into a VG. Let’s move to the next layer and check the LVs with the lvs command:

[root@rhel-instance ~]# lvs
  LV   VG   Attr       LSize  Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert
  root rhel -wi-ao---- <8,00g
  swap rhel -wi-ao----  1,00g  

We see the root and swap volumes on the rhel VG, which hosts the operating system.

Now, we can create a simple LV called data, 200 MB in size, on the storage VG:

[root@rhel-instance ~]# lvcreate --name data --size 200MB storage
  Logical volume "data" created.
[root@rhel-instance ~]# lvs
  LV   VG      Attr       LSize   Pool Origin Data%  ...