Chapter 18 Storage Management

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Chapter 18 Storage Management

Table of Contents

18.1 About Disk Partitions

18.1.1 Managing Partition Tables Using fdisk
18.1.2 Managing Partition Tables Using parted
18.1.3 Mapping Partition Tables to Devices

18.2 About Swap Space

18.2.1 Viewing Swap Space Usage
18.2.2 Creating and Using a Swap File
18.2.3 Creating and Using a Swap Partition
18.2.4 Removing a Swap File or Swap Partition

18.3 About Logical Volume Manager

18.3.1 Initializing and Managing Physical Volumes
18.3.2 Creating and Managing Volume Groups
18.3.3 Creating and Managing Logical Volumes

18.4 About Software RAID

18.4.1 Creating Software RAID Devices

18.5 Creating Encrypted Block Devices

18.6 SSD Configuration Recommendations for btrfs, ext4, and swap

18.7 About iSCSI Storage

18.7.1 Configuring an iSCSI Target
18.7.2 Configuring an iSCSI Initiator
18.7.3 Updating the Discovery Database

18.8 About Device Multipathing

18.8.1 Configuring Multipathing

This chapter describes how to configure and manage disk partitions, swap space, logical volumes, software RAID, block device encryption, iSCSI storage, and multipathing.