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A primer on LVM

Making the most of your storage devices

Choosing the right RAID setup

Making sense of pros and cons for RAID configurations

A gentle introduction to systemd

A broad overview of systemd components and features

Understanding permissions on linux files and directories

Defining who can access what on the filesystem

Managing users on linux

A guide on users, groups and authentication

Forwarding docker container logs to Grafana Loki

Advanced log processing for local container environments

Understanding computer storage units and transfer speeds

Making sense of Gb, GB, GiB, Gbps and GBps

A Practical Guide to Linux Disk Encryption

Keeping disk contents safe from prying eyes

Editing files with nano

Terminal file-editing made easy

Working with tar archives

...and tar.gz, tar.bz2 and tar.xz