On Sat, 18 Sep 2010, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote: > 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. interesting ... is this course publicly available? be fun to take a look at it. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Top-notch, inexpensive online Linux/OSS/kernel courses http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ========================================================================