18 Sep
2010
18 Sep
'10
3:01 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
p.s. one stupendously trivial idea i had was to give each student a cheap USB drive and use that as the vehicle for playing with filesystem utilities. with an $8 2G drive, i can demonstrate concepts like hotplugging, udev, LVM and so on, knowing i'll never risk the contents of the hard drive.
That reminds me of a sysadmin course where we set up minimal, console-only QEMU virtual machines with two virtual disks, and taught fdisk, mkfs, RAID, LVM and the like.
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Eduardo Grosclaude
Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Neuquen, Argentina