Linux Lpi Certification

LPI certification 101 (release 2) exam
prep, Part 4
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1. Before you start .........................................................
2. Filesystems, partitions, and blockdevices .........................
3. Booting the system.....................................................
4. Runlevels ................................................................
5. Filesystem quotas ......................................................
6. System logs .............................................................
7. Summary and resources..............................................

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Section 1. Before you start
About this tutorial
Welcome to "Advanced administration," the last of four tutorials designed to prepare you for
the Linux Professional Institute's 101 (release2) exam. In this tutorial (Part 4), we'll bolster
your knowledge of advanced Linux administration skills by covering a variety of topics
including Linux filesystems, the Linux boot process, runlevels, filesystem quotas, and system
logs.
This tutorial is particularly appropriate for someone who may be serving as the primary
sysadmin for the first time, since we cover a lot of low-level issuesthat all system
administrators should know. If you are new to Linux, we recommend that you start with Part 1
and work through the series from there. For some, much of this material will be new, but
more experienced Linux users may find this tutorial to be a great way of "rounding out" their
foundational Linux system administration skills and preparing for the next LPI certification
level.By the end of this series of tutorials (eight in all covering the LPI 101 and 102 exams), you
will have the knowledge you need to become a Linux Systems Administrator and will be
ready to attain an LPIC Level 1 certification from the Linux Professional Institute if you so
choose.
For those who have taken the release 1 version of this tutorial for reasons other than LPI
exam preparation, youprobably don't need to take this one. However, if you do plan to take
the exams, you should strongly consider reading this revised tutorial.
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About the authors
For technical questions about the content of this tutorial, contact the authors:
• Daniel Robbins, at drobbins@gentoo.org
• Chris Houser, at chouser@gentoo.org
• AronGriffis, at agriffis@gentoo.org

Daniel Robbins lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and is the Chief Architect of Gentoo
Technologies, Inc., the creator of Gentoo Linux, an advanced Linux for the PC, and the
Portage system, a next-generation ports system for Linux. He has also served as a
contributing author for the Macmillan books Caldera OpenLinux Unleashed, SuSE Linux
Unleashed, and SambaUnleashed. Daniel has been involved with computers in some
fashion since the second grade, when he was first exposed to the Logo programming
language as well as a potentially dangerous dose of Pac Man. This probably explains why he
has since served as a Lead Graphic Artist at SONY Electronic Publishing/Psygnosis. Daniel
enjoys spending time with his wife, Mary, and their daughter, Hadassah.Chris Houser, known to his friends as "Chouser," has been a UNIX proponent since 1994
when joined the administration team for the computer science network at Taylor University in
Indiana, where he earned his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics.
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