The software described in this documentation is either in Extended Support or Sustaining Support. See https://www.oracle.com/us/support/library/enterprise-linux-support-policies-069172.pdf for more information.
Oracle recommends that you upgrade the software described by this documentation as soon as possible.
This section contains the following chapters:
Chapter 18, Storage Management describes how to configure and manage disk partitions, swap space, logical volumes, software RAID, block device encryption, iSCSI storage, and multipathing.
Chapter 19, File System Administration describes how to create, mount, check, and repair file systems, how to configure Access Control Lists, how to configure and manage disk quotas.
Chapter 20, Local File System Administration describes administration tasks for the btrfs, ext3, ext4, OCFS2, and XFS local file systems.
Chapter 21, Shared File System Administration describes administration tasks for the NFS and Samba shared file systems, including how to configure NFS and Samba servers.
Chapter 22, Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 describes how to configure and use the Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 (OCFS2) file system.
Table of Contents
- 18 Storage Management
- 19 File System Administration
- 19.1 Making File Systems
- 19.2 Mounting File Systems
- 19.3 About the File System Mount Table
- 19.4 Configuring the Automounter
- 19.5 Mounting a File Containing a File System Image
- 19.6 Creating a File System on a File
- 19.7 Checking and Repairing a File System
- 19.8 About Access Control Lists
- 19.9 About Disk Quotas
- 20 Local File System Administration
- 20.1 About Local File Systems
- 20.2 About the Btrfs File System
- 20.3 Creating a Btrfs File System
- 20.4 Modifying a Btrfs File System
- 20.5 Compressing and Defragmenting a Btrfs File System
- 20.6 Resizing a Btrfs File System
- 20.7 Creating Subvolumes and Snapshots
- 20.8 Using the Send/Receive Feature
- 20.9 Using Quota Groups
- 20.10 Replacing Devices on a Live File System
- 20.11 Creating Snapshots of Files
- 20.12 Converting an Ext2, Ext3, or Ext4 File System to a Btrfs File System
- 20.13 Installing a Btrfs root File System
- 20.13.1 Setting up a New NFS Server
- 20.13.2 Configuring an Existing NFS Server
- 20.13.3 Setting up a New HTTP Server
- 20.13.4 Configuring an Existing HTTP Server
- 20.13.5 Setting up a Network Installation Server
- 20.13.6 Installing from a Network Installation Server
- 20.13.7 About the Installation root File System
- 20.13.8 Creating Snapshots of the root File System
- 20.13.9 Mounting Alternate Snapshots as the root File System
- 20.13.10 Deleting Snapshots of the root File System
- 20.14 Converting a Non-root Ext2 File System to Ext3
- 20.15 Converting a root Ext2 File System to Ext3
- 20.16 Creating a Local OCFS2 File System
- 20.17 About the XFS File System
- 20.18 Installing the XFS Packages
- 20.19 Creating an XFS File System
- 20.20 Modifying an XFS File System
- 20.21 Growing an XFS File System
- 20.22 Freezing and Unfreezing an XFS File System
- 20.23 Setting Quotas on an XFS File System
- 20.24 Backing up and Restoring XFS File Systems
- 20.25 Defragmenting an XFS File System
- 20.26 Checking and Repairing an XFS File System
- 21 Shared File System Administration
- 22 Oracle Cluster File System Version 2
- 22.1 About OCFS2
- 22.2 Installing and Configuring OCFS2
- 22.2.1 Preparing a Cluster for OCFS2
- 22.2.2 Configuring the Firewall
- 22.2.3 Configuring the Cluster Software
- 22.2.4 Creating the Configuration File for the Cluster Stack
- 22.2.5 Configuring the Cluster Stack
- 22.2.6 Configuring the Kernel for Cluster Operation
- 22.2.7 Starting and Stopping the Cluster Stack
- 22.2.8 Creating OCFS2 volumes
- 22.2.9 Mounting OCFS2 Volumes
- 22.2.10 Querying and Changing Volume Parameters
- 22.3 Troubleshooting OCFS2
- 22.4 Use Cases for OCFS2
- 22.5 For More Information About OCFS2