3 Storage and File Systems
WARNING:
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Migrate applications and data to Oracle Linux 8 or Oracle Linux 9 as soon as possible.
This section contains the following chapters:
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Storage Management describes how to configure and manage disk partitions, swap space, logical volumes, software RAID, block device encryption, iSCSI storage, and multipathing.
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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.
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Local File System Administration describes administration tasks for the btrfs, ext3, ext4, OCFS2, and XFS local file systems.
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Shared File System Administration describes administration tasks for the NFS and Samba shared file systems, including how to configure NFS and Samba servers.
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Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 describes how to configure and use the Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 (OCFS2) file system.
Storage Management
This chapter describes how to configure and manage disk partitions, swap space, logical volumes, software RAID, block device encryption, iSCSI storage, and multipathing.
Note:
The information in this chapter has been migrated to separate and more updated documentation. See Oracle Linux 7: Managing Storage and Storage Devices.
File System Administration
This chapter describes how to create, mount, check, and repair file systems, how to configure Access Control Lists, how to configure and manage disk quotas.
Note:
The information in this chapter has been migrated to separate and more updated documentation. See Oracle Linux 7: Managing File Systems.
Local File System Administration
This chapter describes administration tasks for the btrfs, ext3, ext4, OCFS2, and XFS local file systems.
Note:
The information in this chapter has been migrated to separate and more updated documentation. See Oracle Linux 7: Managing File Systems.
Shared File System Administration
This chapter describes administration tasks for the NFS and Samba shared file systems.
Note:
The information in this chapter has been migrated to separate and more updated documentation. See Oracle Linux 7: Managing File Systems.
Oracle Cluster File System Version 2
This chapter describes how to configure and use the Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 (OCFS2) file system.
Note:
The information in this chapter has been migrated to separate and more updated documentation. See Oracle Linux 7: Managing File Systems.
You can also find more information about OCFS2 at https://oss.oracle.com/projects/ocfs2/documentation/ .