On Thu, 2015-06-25 at 11:50 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
At Thu, 25 Jun 2015 11:03:18 -0400 CentOS mailing list < centos@centos.org> wrote:HA! You only really need to learn *one* command: the man command. The man provides 'enlightenment' for all other commands: man vgdisplay man lvdisplay man lvcreate man lvextend man lvresize man lvreduce man lvremove man e2fsck man resize2fs
These are the only LVM commands I use regularly (yes there a a pile more, but most are rarely used and a handful only used in startup/shutdown scripts or when rescuing)
There may be numerous commands... but isn't it pretty obvious what each one of them do? Often lv<tab><tab> is plenty of hinting to get to the right thing. And each of the commands uses the same syntax for options.
spotty coverage of up-to-date documentation. Google can be a dangerous guide given the wide variation of practice across differing..
Yes, exactly. DO NOT USE GOOGLE - USE THE &^@&$^* DOCUMENTATION!
Right, expecting a *web search* to give *correct* command documentation is problematical. Using the local system man pages often works better, since the man pages installed with the installed utilities will cover the *installed* version and not the version that might be installed on a *different*
+1
If you want to get infrequently performed sysadmin tasks done reliably and with a minimum of fuss use something like Webmin and get on with the rest of your life.
And take notes! You are sitting at a computer after all.
-- Adam Tauno Williams mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA