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Using and Administering Linux. Zero to SysAdmin: Advanced Topics / Volume 2 :

Experience an in-depth exploration of logical volume management and the use of file managers to manipulate files and directories and the critical concept that, in Linux, everything is a file and some fun and interesting uses of the fact that everything is a file. This book builds upon the skills you...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Both, David P., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : Apress, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo (Requiere registro previo con correo institucional)
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Table of Contents
  • About the Author
  • About the Technical Reviewer
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Logical Volume Management
  • Objectives
  • The need for logical volume management
  • Running out of disk space in VirtualBox
  • Recovery
  • LVM structure
  • Extending a logical volume
  • Extending volume groups
  • Create a new volume group
  • 1
  • Create a new volume group
  • 2
  • Tips
  • Advanced capabilities
  • Chapter summary
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 2: File Managers
  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • Text-mode interface
  • Graphical interface
  • Default file manager
  • Text-mode file managers
  • Midnight Commander
  • Other text-mode file managers
  • Vifm
  • nnn
  • Graphical file managers
  • Krusader
  • Thunar
  • Dolphin
  • XFE
  • Chapter summary
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 3: Everything Is a File
  • Objectives
  • What is a file?
  • Device files
  • Device file creation
  • udev simplification
  • Naming rules
  • Device data flow
  • Device file classification
  • Fun with device files
  • Randomness, zero, and more
  • Back up the master boot record
  • Implications of everything is a file
  • Chapter summary
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 4: Managing Processes
  • Objectives
  • Processes
  • Process scheduling in the kernel
  • Tools
  • top
  • Summary section
  • Process section
  • More about load averages ...
  • ... and signals
  • CPU hogs
  • Process scheduling
  • Nice numbers
  • Killing processes
  • Other interactive tools
  • atop
  • Summary section
  • Process section
  • Configuration
  • htop
  • Summary section
  • Process section
  • Configuration
  • Glances
  • Summary section
  • Process section
  • Sidebar
  • Configuration
  • Other tools
  • The impact of measurement
  • Chapter summary
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 5: Special Filesystems
  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • The /proc filesystem
  • The /sys filesystem
  • Swap space
  • Types of Linux swap
  • Thrashing
  • What is the right amount of swap space?
  • Adding more swap space on a non-LVM disk partition
  • Adding swap to an LVM disk environment
  • Other swap options with LVM
  • Chapter summary
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 6: Regular Expressions
  • Objectives
  • Introducing regular expressions
  • Getting started
  • The mailing list
  • The first solution
  • The second solution
  • grep
  • Data flow
  • regex building blocks
  • Repetition
  • Other metacharacters
  • sed
  • Other tools that implement regular expressions
  • Resources
  • Chapter summary
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 7: Printing
  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • About printers
  • Print languages
  • Printers and Linux
  • CUPS
  • Creating the print queue
  • Printing to a PDF file
  • File conversion tools
  • a2ps
  • ps2pdf
  • pr
  • ps2ascii
  • Operating system-related conversion tools
  • unix2dos
  • dos2unix
  • unix2mac and mac2unix
  • Miscellaneous tools
  • lpmove
  • wvText and odt2txt
  • Chapter summary
  • Exercises
  • Chapter 8: Hardware Detection
  • Objectives
  • Introduction
  • dmidecode
  • lshw
  • lsusb
  • usb-devices
  • lspci
  • Cleanup