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1. Changes to This Manual........................................................................................................ i
2. Document Conventions......................................................................................................... ii
3. More to Come....................................................................................................................... v
3.1. Send in Your Feedback.......................................................................................... v
4. Sign Up for Support.............................................................................................................. v
1. The ext3 File System............................................................................................................ 1
1.1. Features of ext3...................................................................................................... 1
1.2. Creating an ext3 File System................................................................................. 1
1.3. Converting to an ext3 File System......................................................................... 2
1.4. Reverting to an ext2 File System........................................................................... 2
2. Swap Space........................................................................................................................... 5
2.1. What is Swap Space?............................................................................................. 5
2.2. Adding Swap Space............................................................................................... 5
2.3. Removing Swap Space.......................................................................................... 6
2.4. Moving Swap Space.............................................................................................. 7
3. Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID).................................................................. 9
3.1. What is RAID?....................................................................................................... 9
3.2. Who Should Use RAID?........................................................................................ 9
3.3. Hardware RAID versus Software RAID................................................................ 9
3.4. RAID Levels and Linear Support........................................................................ 10
4. Logical Volume Manager (LVM)........................................................................................ 13
5. Managing Disk Storage....................................................................................................... 15
5.1. Viewing the Partition Table.................................................................................. 16
5.2. Creating a Partition.............................................................................................. 16
5.3. Removing a Partition........................................................................................... 18
5.4. Resizing a Partition.............................................................................................. 19
6. Implementing Disk Quotas................................................................................................. 21
6.1. Con\ufb01guring Disk Quotas..................................................................................... 21
6.2. Managing Disk Quotas........................................................................................ 24
6.3. Additional Resources........................................................................................... 25
7. Kickstart Installations......................................................................................................... 29 7.1. What are Kickstart Installations?......................................................................... 29 7.2. How Do You Perform a Kickstart Installation?................................................... 29 7.3. Creating the Kickstart File................................................................................... 29 7.4. Kickstart Options................................................................................................. 30 7.5. Package Selection................................................................................................ 44 7.6. Pre-installation Script........................................................................................... 45 7.7. Post-installation Script......................................................................................... 47 7.8. Making the Kickstart File Available.................................................................... 48 7.9. Making the Installation Tree Available................................................................ 49 7.10. Starting a Kickstart Installation......................................................................... 49
8.Kickstart Con\ufb01gurator..................................................................................................... 53 8.1. Basic Con\ufb01guration............................................................................................. 53 8.2. Installation Method.............................................................................................. 54 8.3. Boot Loader Options............................................................................................ 55 8.4. Partition Information............................................................................................ 56 8.5. Network Con\ufb01guration........................................................................................ 59 8.6. Authentication...................................................................................................... 60 8.7. Firewall Con\ufb01guration......................................................................................... 61 8.8. X Con\ufb01guration................................................................................................... 62
