Red Hat System Administration I

Instructions

1. On the serverb machine as the root user, identify the UUID for the /dev/vdb1 device, and mount it by using its UUID on the /mnt/freespace directory.

   1. Log in to the serverb machine as the student user, and switch to the root user.

      [student@workstation ~]$ ssh student@serverb
      ...output omitted...
      [student@serverb ~]$ sudo -i
      [sudo] password for student: student
      [root@serverb ~]#

   2. Query the UUID of the /dev/vdb1 device.

      [root@serverb ~]# lsblk -fp /dev/vdb
      NAME        FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
      /dev/vdb
      └─/dev/vdb1 xfs                44bfb7c8-970c-4d0b-b53d-90ae31cb27ca

   3. Create the /mnt/freespace directory.

      [root@serverb ~]# mkdir /mnt/freespace

   4. Mount the /dev/vdb1 device by using the UUID on the /mnt/freespace directory.

      [root@serverb ~]# mount UUID="44bfb7c8-970c-4d0b-b53d-90ae31cb27ca" /mnt/freespace

   5. Verify that the /dev/vdb1 device is mounted on the /mnt/freespace directory.

      [root@serverb ~]# lsblk -fp /dev/vdb1
      NAME     FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINTS
      /dev/vdb1
               xfs                44bfb7c8-970c-4d0b-b53d-90ae31cb27ca    4.9G     1% /mnt/freespace

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2. Generate a disk usage report for the /usr/share directory. Save the result in the /mnt/freespace/results.txt file.

   [root@serverb ~]# du /usr/share > /mnt/freespace/results.txt

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3. Locate all the files that match the rsyslog.conf keyword, and store the result in the /mnt/freespace/search1.txt file.

   1. Update the locate database.

      [root@serverb ~]# updatedb

   2. Use the locate command to find all the files that match the rsyslog.conf keyword, and save the result in the /mnt/freespace/search1.txt file.

      [root@serverb ~]# locate rsyslog.conf > /mnt/freespace/search1.txt

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4. Store in the /mnt/freespace/search2.txt file the search result of all files in the /usr/share directory that are greater than 50 MB and less than 100 MB.

   [root@serverb ~]# find /usr/share -size +50M -size -100M > \
   /mnt/freespace/search2.txt

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5. Return to the workstation system as the student user.

   [root@serverb ~]$ exit
   logout
   [student@serverb ~]$ exit
   logout
   Connection to serverb closed.
   [student@workstation ~]$

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