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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials

By : Neil Smyth
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Book Image

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Essentials

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By: Neil Smyth

Overview of this book

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is one of the most secure and dependable operating systems available. For this reason, the ambitious system or network engineer will find a working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise 8 to be an invaluable advantage in their respective fields. This book, now updated for RHEL 8.1, begins with a history of Red Enterprise Linux and its installation. You will be virtually perform remote system administration tasks with cockpit web interface and write shell scripts to maintain server-based systems without desktop installation. Then, you will set up a firewall system using a secure shell and enable remote access to Gnome desktop environment with virtual network computing (VNC). You’ll share files between the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL 8) and Windows System using Samba client and NFS. You will also run multiple guest operating systems using virtualization and Linux containers, and host websites using RHEL 8 by installing an Apache web server. Finally, you will create logical disks using logical volume management and implement swap space to maintain the performance of a RHEL 8 system. By the end of this book, you will be armed with the skills and knowledge to install the RHEL 8 operating system and use it expertly.
Table of Contents (32 chapters)
32
Index

5.3 Formatting the Unallocated Disk Partition

In order to make the new partition suitable for use by RHEL 8, it needs to have a file system created on it. The default file system type for the current release of RHEL is XFS and will be covered in greater detail in the chapter entitled “Adding a New Disk Drive to a RHEL 8 System”. Creation of the file system is performed using the mkfs.xfs command as follows:

# mkfs.xfs -f /dev/sda1

meta-data=/dev/sda1 isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=1676672 blks

         = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1

         = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=0

         = reflink=1

data = bsize=4096 blocks=6706688, imaxpct=25

         ...