Oracle Linux System Administration II — Lesson 2: Partitions, LVM, Filesystems, Swap, Quotas, and Storage Operations

Technical Scope

• device discovery, partitions, UUIDs, mounts, and persistent configuration
• physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes, resizing, and snapshots
• XFS and ext filesystem creation, repair, permissions, ACLs, and quotas
• swap, storage monitoring, capacity alerts, backup, and recovery tests

Instructor Demonstration

Demonstrate device discovery, partitions, UUIDs, mounts, and persistent configuration within a production Oracle Linux server prepared for application hosting with resilient storage, controlled services, secure access, observable performance, and documented recovery, then capture the exact configuration, command, transaction, report, trace, or code evidence that proves the expected result.

Applied Workshop

Implement a controlled workshop covering physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes, resizing, and snapshots and XFS and ext filesystem creation, repair, permissions, ACLs, and quotas, then test a failure, exception, or business-control scenario involving swap, storage monitoring, capacity alerts, backup, and recovery tests.

1. Confirm the environment, identities, data, dependencies, controls, and expected result.
2. Complete the product-specific configuration, development, analysis, or business-process task.
3. Capture commands, configuration, output, logs, transactions, reports, or test evidence.
4. Explain the operational, security, performance, data-quality, or business trade-off.

Validation Standard

The Partitions, LVM, Filesystems, Swap, Quotas, and Storage Operations result must be reproducible, traceable to approved inputs, and consistent with expected Oracle product or business-process behavior.

• The intended target, scope, and ownership are verified.
• The result is supported by reproducible evidence and expected-value checks.
• Security, performance, reliability, data quality, and support impact are reviewed.
• Unexpected behavior is investigated before acceptance or release.

Failure Analysis

Diagnose issues in device discovery, partitions, UUIDs, mounts, and persistent configuration, physical volumes, volume groups, logical volumes, resizing, and snapshots, XFS and ext filesystem creation, repair, permissions, ACLs, and quotas, or swap, storage monitoring, capacity alerts, backup, and recovery tests without making an unverified production change.

Learners isolate the smallest proven cause, apply a reversible correction, rerun validation, and record the preventive action.

Practical Outcome

Complete a validated implementation or analysis for Partitions, LVM, Filesystems, Swap, Quotas, and Storage Operations and defend the result with documented evidence.