This video discusses how you can create logical volumes using LVM using pvcreate, vgcreate, lvcreate, lvresize, lvrename, mkfs, and resize2fs.

Using the ab utility you are able to test your current version of apache and how well it performs to multiple requests for even a set amount of time. It’s not hard at all to use this utility. All you need to do is the following: ab –n 100 –c 10 http://domain_to_test_with_ab.com/index.php What we’re doing above is sending 100 requests to the index.php file of that domain in increments of 10. This means that site will receive […]

In order to change the default time zone for your machine all you would need to do is follow a few simple steps. First thing you need to know is where your default time zone is actually set. The path to that file is as follows: /etc/localtime To find a list of the available time zones you could look in: /usr/share/zoneinfo So now that we know those basic details, lets continue on to modifying our time zone. […]

Configure NTP (Network Time Protocol) to synchronize your system clock on Red Hat Based  GNU/Linux Systems. NTP allows you to easily synchronize your server time with a specified server. Below are the steps to easily configure this service. Step 1:  Install the NTP utility yum –y install ntp Step 2:  Synchronize your server/computer with the specified server ntpdate pool.ntp.org Step 3: Start the ntpd service service ntpd start Step 4: Enable the service to auto start on boot […]

This video discusses the different ways you can create GNU Linux partitions using fdisk, mount, mkfs, mkswap, swapon and more.

This video explains how to use the chmod, chown, chgrp utilities as well as demonstrating how to use the special

This video explains how to manage user accounts, update passwords, manage group memberships, as well as create new groups.

This video explains how to use the YUM package manager to install utilities, update, uninstall and more. In this video

This video explains how to use the RPM package management utility.

This video discusses different tools you can use for Linux, such as top, ps, free, uptime and more.