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Storage & Filesystems · System Administration

Build and operate a ZFS storage pool with snapshots, scrubs, replacement, and recovery

Create a mirrored OpenZFS data pool from stable device identities, separate data into policy-aware datasets, recover individual files from snapshots, verify every block with scheduled scrubs, replace a failed member without confusing device names, and rehearse a read-only import path before an incident.
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danger150 minadvanced12 stepsUbuntu Server

Storage & Filesystems · System Administration · High Availability & Reliability

Create, monitor, degrade, and recover a Linux RAID 1 array with mdadm

Build a two-member data RAID 1 array, persist assembly and mounting, monitor synchronization and consistency, rehearse a controlled member failure, and rebuild onto a positively identified replacement.
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danger120 minadvanced11 stepsUbuntu Server

Storage & Filesystems · System Administration

Expand an LVM logical volume and filesystem without downtime

Safely add capacity to an online thick LVM logical volume, with an optional new physical volume, a tested size plan, separate ext4 and XFS growth paths, and evidence that the application received usable space.
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danger45 minadvanced10 stepsUbuntu Server

System Administration · Storage & Filesystems · Security

Migrate a Linux root filesystem to a larger disk with minimal downtime

Copy an Ubuntu root filesystem to a larger ext4 disk, preserve Linux metadata, rebuild UUID-based boot artifacts, perform a controlled cutover, and retain the original disk as a tested rollback.
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danger150 minadvanced11 stepsUbuntu Server