Table of Contents Table of Contents Title and Copyright Information Preface Conventions Documentation Accessibility Access to Oracle Support for Accessibility Diversity and Inclusion 1 Configuring Storage Devices Working With Disk Partitions Managing Partition Tables With the fdisk Utility Managing Partition Tables With the parted Program Mapping Partition Tables to Devices About Swap Space Viewing Swap Space Usage Creating and Using a Swap File Creating and Using a Swap Partition Removing a Swap File or Swap Partition 2 Working With Logical Volume Manager About Logical Volume Manager Initializing and Managing Physical Volumes Creating and Managing Volume Groups Creating and Managing Logical Volumes Creating Logical Volume Snapshots Creating and Managing Thinly-Provisioned Logical Volumes Using snapper with Thinly-Provisioned Logical Volumes 3 Working With Software RAID About Software RAID Creating Software RAID Devices 4 Creating Encrypted Block Devices About Encrypted Block Devices Setting Up LUKS Encryption Recommendations for SSD Configuration for Btrfs, ext4, and Swap 5 Working With iSCSI Devices About Linux-IO Storage Configuration Configuring an iSCSI Target Restoring a Saved Configuration for an iSCSI target Configuring an iSCSI Initiator Updating the Discovery Database 6 Using Multipathing for Efficient Storage Device Multipathing Sample Setup Configuring Multipathing Working With the Multipathing Configuration File