Having figured out Samba shares, I thought I would tackle remote file systems between Linux machines using NFS (Network File Service). The documentation looked clear enough, but it wasn’t quit as easy as I expected, largely due to the differences between version 3 and 4 of NFS with respect to:
firewall behavior
exporting file system syntax [...]
I added a new 500GB HDD to the Linux home PC. This drive will be dedicated to Samba shares for our home PC that has exhausted its 80GB hard drive. This gave me an opportunity to set up file systems on the Linux machine, a great learning opportunity. I decided to set up a 250GB physical volume called ‘/storage’ that would hold our multimedia files’ and a 250GB logical volume group, 100GB of which would be a ‘/backup’ volume to act as a backup drive for the home PC files (currently being backed up to CD-RW) and a 100GB drive called ‘/junk’ which has no other purpose than giving me a second logical volume in the volume group. Going forward, I’ll create file systems as all logical volumes, because these are easier to resize in the future. But using a physical volume for /storage game me a chance to set up both.
What follows is a cookbook for each scenario, the physical volume /storage and the logical volumes /backup and /junk.
I want to play with computers and networking. My family doesn’t. They are content with a basic Windows XP PC with email, web browsing and support for MP3 players and digital cameras. Our XP PC is 5 years old and has exhausted its 80 GB hard drive. Rather than buying a new Vista machine, I [...]
After completing the build of the new PC, I set out to load a version of Linux. While it seamed that most folks who had bought my ASUS motherboard had successfully installed Ubuntu, I wanted to go with CentOS, because it is based on the Red Hat Enterprise distribution and I had used it some [...]