On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:06 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at 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. -- Eduardo Grosclaude Universidad Nacional del Comahue Neuquen, Argentina