CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 08 – System Maintenance Part 1

1. System Maintenance All right. So in this unit we’re going to talk about system maintenance. Our goal here is to make sure that we are preparing for the worst things to happen and that is the way we’re going to start it off with kind of that negative tone. We’re going to say, look,… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 07 – Process and Module Management Part 4

30. Demo – Viewing Kernel Information All right, we’re going to take a look at some of our kernel information and I’m going to start off here with the little command like you name and there’s the kernel. That was exciting. It was just plain old Linux. Well let’s try that. You name again with… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 07 – Process and Module Management Part 3

19. Foreground and Background Now, another option you have is to run the same type of command but in the background so that it’s not in the foreground waiting to be finished before you can go back to your shell to do that which we described before was called a foreground process. We run it… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 07 – Process and Module Management Part 2

12. The top Command Now, when you do take a look at some of the information, it might not be in the order that you like. In other words, you want to see the top offenders, whatever you want to call those processes first. So remember that with most of these, you have a top… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 07 – Process and Module Management Part 1

1. Topic A: Process Management All right. In this unit we’re going to talk about our processes and module management. Now this is really getting into the deeper parts of the operating system of its functionality where we actually care about all the little processes that are running in their parent processes. So we’re going… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 5

37. RAID Level Raid. Level three is a striping with a Parity drive. So what does that mean to us? What it means is that I have 3234 drives that are storing the actual data as a stripe. Striping means filling each one up equally as much. And I have another drive whose job is… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 4

29. Swap Space Options All right. When you originally configured this Linux box and you partitioned your drive, you were told basically when you created it that you had to make a root partition and a swap partition. Those were the minimum too. You could make more partitions if you want to but we have… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 3

19. Demo – Editing the fstab File We now remember the fstab or FS tab. Sorry, I had somebody say that to me, and I thought it was funny. So anyway, the file system tab file is the one that we’re going to edit with VI. And remember, it was designed so that every time… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 2

11. parted – Partition Editor So one of the other optional tools that you can use for creating a partition is a tool called Parted. Now Parted we say, is text mode, which just means it’s a command line tool. Now, you won’t find it on every single distribution of Linux. It’s not automatically there,… Read More »

CompTIA Linux+ XK0-005 – Unit 06 – System Configuration Part 1

1. System Configuration Now in this unit we’re going to talk about system configurations, mostly dealing with hard drives, but really we can talk about devices. So when we think about expanding onto our Linux operating system, we’re on the actual hardware platform adding new drives. We’re going to focus on making sure that they… Read More »