[Novalug] Topic tomorrow

Paul Gupta paul at guptaxpn.com
Fri May 2 20:17:10 EDT 2008


Just curious, as I'm new to this listserv, how and where are these daily 
topics discussed?

Fearer, Mark wrote:
>  From novalug.com :
>  
>  
> Roger will talk about introducing Linux in a developing country.
> OVERVIEW: At the end of the road lies opportunity. Roger discusses 
> experiences in
> introducing Linux in Santa Marta, El Salvador - a small village near the
> frontier with Honduras: real-world frustrations, successes, and needs in a
> developing country. With images to illustrate the setting and contrast 
> between
> an advanced and developing country.
>  
> Peter will talk about LVM
> OVERVIEW: LVM - your new, better, more flexible and powerful partitions
> (and it'll probably make the coffee too). In today's Linux 
> installations, we no longer use static partitions, but instead most 
> installs defaults to the flexible logical volume manager (LVM). Using a 
> device mapper, this tools allows us to dynamically manage space. We can 
> add hard drives and simply expand the "partition" over the new disk, so 
> no new design has to be done. Backup is a snap - create an offline 
> snapshot of your hard drive is done in a matter of seconds. You ran out 
> of space? Well, increase your partition size is easy - you don't have 
> the limitations of traditional partitions.
> Proposed Agenda
> * Introduction
> * Harddrives and Traditional Partitions
> * LVM Components
> * The Device Mapper and it's mysterious working
> * Demo
> o Setup from scratch
> o How to query/view LVM information
> If there is time (each subject below can easily take 15-30 minutes):
> * Adding space - expansion
> * Snapshots and backups
> * LVM configuration files
> * LVM recovery
>  
>  
>  
> 
> 
> */Charles M Howe <cmhowe at patriot.net>/* wrote:
> 
>     What is the topic tomorrow?
> 
>     Charlie
> 
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