Logical Volume Manager (LVM) in Redhat linux

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Soft link Vs Hard link in Linux/*NIX

Guest post by Sasi..


                                          Soft Link (Symbolic Link) & Hard Link
Soft Link

• Soft or symbolic is more of a short cut to the original file....if you delete the original the shortcut fails and if you only delete the short cut nothing happens to the original.
• A 'soft link' is a symbolic link to another file either on the same file system or a different file system. A 'soft link' may span file systems while a 'hard link' must point to a file on the same file system.
• A soft link (or symbolic link) is just a way of accessing files (or directories) without moving them. You just have to associate the path of the file with a special type of file (a link) which will lead you directly to it. It is called soft by comparison to a hard link which has different properties.
• A soft link is basically a file that contains the absolute path of the file it is pointing to. The file system tools simply know to follow the link in the file. This allows us to link across the system

Hard Link

hard link is more of mirror copy....does something to file1 and it appears in file 2
deleting one still keeps the other ok
Difference between hard link and soft link
Hard links share the same inode. Soft links do not.
Hard links can't cross file systems. Soft links do
In Linux, as in commercial Unix systems, the 'ln' command is used to create a symbolic link in file systems. A 'hard link' is a link pointing directly to a specific inode on the same file system.

An example of a partial 'ls -al' listing of a single line from a /dev directory on a Linux system which illustrates the appearance of a symlinked file follows:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 13 22:05 cdrom -> hdc

In this example, the /dev/cdrom device is symlinked to the /dev/hdc device making them effectively one and the same though with different names. The leading 'l' in the 'lrwxrwxrwx' permissions listing indicates that the listing is a symbolic link. [JMH]
A hard link basically assigns another physical pointer to the same piece of data. This creates a limitation as it requires that the data be on the same logical disk as the link pointers location is designated by the inode of the data.


This is first guest post on my blog,Author of this post is having 4 years extnsive knowledge on most of the *NIX flavors you can reach him @ Sasikanth Padigala (spadigala@gmail.com)

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Linux Interview questions:Experienced

Experienced

what is DNS?
why we required CHROOT package? can you explain it?
What is the location for DHCP server default leased configs file?
what is the command and syntax to check DNS server named.conf file errors?
What is the command and syntax to check DNS server zone files config errors?
How do you update DNS zone file entries with out restarting named demon?
What are the services/demons will restart when you restart NFS service?
how do you update NFS sharing details with out restarting NFS server?
What are the advantages of NIS?
Can you explain me about LVM and how you configure LVM?
What is the difference between LVM1 and LVM2?
What is Amanda server and where is it used?
Can you explain me corntab?
How to resize LVM?
Can you explain me about RAID5?
How many RAID devices are there in RHEL5 by default?
Min how many Raid devices will participate in RAID5?
How do you do Kernel patching and what is the command?
Can you explain me about in details how you do kernel recompilation?
Can you explain what is the use fo access file in sendmail and what is its location?
Can you explain me what is the advantage of local-hosts file and virtusertable in sendmail?
How you will specify static IP's in DHCP server?
how do you update NIS users with out restarting the NIS server?
What is the partation no for LVM?
What is the partation no for RAID?
What is the port no for DNS?
Can we change default port no for DNS? if yes, how?
How many RAID device we can create in RHEL4?
Can you explain me Disk quota in detail and configuration details?
How to increase RAID devices after it excied max limit?

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