Creating and Configuring File System Options

Andrew Mallett
@theurbanpenguin | www.theurbanpenguin.com
 Objective 203.3
Creating and Configuring File System Options
 Lab Setup
To demonstrate we will use CentOS 7. The
system is virtualized and has an additional
disk with a single partition as yet
unformatted /dev/sde1. This will be used as
an encrypted LUKS partition.

Additionally we have a remote NFS server

that we use to demonstrate autofs.
What Do You Need to Know

• Auto-mounting with autofs

• Creating ISO files
• Mounting ISO files
• Full disk encryption with LUKS
 Auto-mount

auto.corp
auto.master
yum install autofs Configure target
Configure /corp
shares /corp/pdf

mkdir /corp cd /corp/pdf Timeout 5 minutes

/corp /etc/auto.corp --timeout=900

/etc/auto.master
The autofs service is a client utility used to auto-mount remote shares
pdf -fstype=nfs 192.168.0.53:/pdf

/etc/auto.corp
These shares are defined in the auto.* file. Here the /corp/pdf directory will be auto-
created and mounted to the remote share
$ sudo systemctl enable autofs
$ sudo systemctl restart autofs

Starting autofs on CentOS 7

Demo: Auto-mounting with autofs
$ mkisofs -V BOOT -J -r -o /tmp/boot.iso /boot

Creating ISO Files

Creating ISO file systems from directories is easy with mkisofs.
 Mounting ISO Files

ISO files have always been mountable in

Linux
mount -o loop /tmp/boot.iso /mnt
/tmp/boot.iso /mnt iso9660 auto,loop 0 0
[/tmp/dvd.iso /mnt udf auto,loop 0 0]
Demo: Making and Mounting ISO Files
# cryptsetup -v -y luksFormat /dev/sde1
# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sde1 secure
# ls -l /dev/mapper/secure
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/secure
# mount /dev/mapper/secure /secure

Full Disk Encryption

For added security a complete disk or partition can be encrypted with LUKS
[Dev Mapper Name] [Device or UUID] [Passphrase]
secure /dev/sde1 none

/etc/crypttab
Instruction for cryptsetup can be added to the /etc/crypttab file
Demo: Disk Encryption
Creating and Configuring File System Options

The magic of autofs

auto.master and auto.*
Making and mounting ISO files
Disk encryption with LUKS
Next Up: Configuring RAID in Linux