Chapter 15. Advanced Disk Management

Terms you'll need to understand:

  • Virtual file systems

  • Concatenation and striping

  • Mirroring

  • Redundant array of independent disks (RAID)

  • DiskSuite virtual disk manager

  • Sun StorEdge Volume Manager

Techniques you'll need to master:

  • Identifying RAID levels

  • Identifying virtual file system pathnames

  • Distinguishing between DiskSuite and Volume Manager

This chapter covers the Disk Management test objectives. The first section of this chapter reviews basic disk management commands. The second section introduces and describes features of virtual file systems and defines some of the basic terminology.

The last two sections briefly describe the features and capabilities of two disk management software products that are available ...

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