Check and Repair Filesystems

Introduction

Welcome to the Check and Repair Filesystems Practice Lab. In this module you will be provided with the instructions and devices needed to develop your hands-on skills.

Learning Outcomes

In this module, you will complete the following exercises:

• Exercise 1 - Check and Repair Filesystems

After completing this lab, you will be able to:

• Log into a Linux System
• Use various methods to check and repair filesystems

Exam Objectives

The following exam objectives are covered in this lab:

• LPI: 104.1 Create partitions and filesystems
• LPI: 104.3 Control mounting and unmounting of filesystems
• CompTIA: 1.4 Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux environment.

Lab Duration

It will take approximately 1 hour to complete this lab.

Exercise 1 - Check and Repair Filesystems

A server can hold more than one hard drive. Due to an unforeseen error, there are changes that the server may crash, which can also impact the hard drive by making it unusable. The server administrator must regularly check the filesystem health, which is installed on the hard drive. CentOS provides several commands for this purpose.

In this exercise, you will learn to view the hard drive details.

Learning Outcomes

After completing this exercise, you will be able to:

• Log into a Linux System
• Use various methods to check and repair filesystems