Ubuntu System Administration
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Add and Format New Device
Some commands and files around here:
- lshw, list all hardware. The option -C disk will list all hard dirves.
- fdisk, partition the disk
- mkfs, format the partition
- /etc/fstab, update this file to tell Ubuntu to mount the new disk at boot time.
- mount, use it to do manual mount.
Ubuntu's formal documentation about new hard drive Installing A New Hard Drive
Compilers in Ubuntu
Main documentation: Installing Compilers
Network Setings in Ubuntu
set us multip ips in Untuntu Server: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/ubuntu-networking-configuration-using-command-line.html
Ubuntu's offical manual about network configuration: <https://help.ubuntu.com/11.04/serverguide/C/network-configuration.html>
Some commans and files related to network configuration
- lshw -class network, list all physical network device
- file /etc/network/interfaces is where we set up IPs for each network device. We could set up more than one IPs for each single network device: using :n as the id. For example: eth0:1, eth1:2, etc.
- Using ifup and ifdown to enable/disable the network interface
