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=204.1 Configuring RAID=

Weight 2

Candidates should be able to configure and implement software RAID. This objective includes using and configuring RAID 0, 1 and 5.

Key Knowledge Areas

    * Software raid configuration files and utilities 

==mdadm.conf==
==mdadm==
==/proc/mdstat==
==fdisk== 

=204.2 Adjusting Storage Device Access=

Weight 1

Candidates should be able to configure kernel options to support various drives. This objective includes software tools to view & modify hard disk settings.

Key Knowledge Areas

    * Tools and utilities to configure DMA for IDE devices including ATAPI and SATA
    * Tools and utilities to manipulate or analyse system resources (e.g. interrupts) 

==hdparm==
==tune2fs==
==sysctl==
==/dev/hd* & /dev/==

=204.3 Logical Volume Manager=

Weight 3

Candidates should be able to create and remove logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes. This objective includes snapshots and resizing logical volumes.

Key Knowledge Areas

    * Tools in the LVM suite
    * Resizing, renaming, creating, and removing logical volumes, volume groups, and physical volumes
    * Creating and maintaining snapshots
    * Activating volume groups 

==/sbin/pv*==
==/sbin/lv*==
==/sbin/vg*==
==mount==
==/dev/mapper/==