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System Management
1.0
System Management
1.1
Explain basic Linux concepts
1.1.1
Basic boot process (Bootloader, Kernel, initrd, PXE) — Explain basic Linux concepts
1.1.2
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS): /, /bin, /boot, /dev, /etc, /home, /lib, /proc, /sbin, /tmp, /usr, /var — Explain basic Linux concepts
1.1.3
Server architectures (AArch64, RISC-V, x86, x86_64/AMD64) — Explain basic Linux concepts
1.1.4
Distributions (RPM-based, dpkg-based) — Explain basic Linux concepts
1.1.5
Graphical User Interface (GUI): display managers, window managers, X Server, Wayland — Explain basic Linux concepts
⌛ Getting Started with Linux GUIs
· Coming 23 July 2026
1.1.6
Software licensing (open source, free software, proprietary, copyleft) — Explain basic Linux concepts
Coming soon
1.2
Summarize Linux device management concepts and tools
1.2.1
Kernel modules (depmod, insmod, lsmod, modinfo, modprobe, rmmod) — Summarize Linux device management concepts and tools
1.2.2
Device management (dmesg, dmidecode, ipmitool, lm_sensors, lscpu, lshw, lsmem, lspci, lsusb) — Summarize Linux device management concepts and tools
1.2.3
initrd management (dracut, mkinitrd) — Summarize Linux device management concepts and tools
Coming soon
1.2.4
Custom hardware (embedded systems, GPU use cases, nvtop) — Summarize Linux device management concepts and tools
Coming soon
1.3
Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux system
1.3.1
Logical Volume Manager (LVM): logical volumes, volume groups, physical volumes (lvcreate, vgcreate, pvcreate and related commands) — Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux system
1.3.2
Partitions (blkid, fdisk/gdisk, growpart, lsblk, parted) — Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux system
⌛ How to Create and Resize Partitions in Linux
· Coming 30 July 2026
1.3.3
Filesystems: formats (xfs, ext4, btrfs, tmpfs) and utilities (df, du, fio, fsck, mkfs, resize2fs, xfs_growfs, xfs_repair) — Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux system
Coming soon
1.3.4
RAID (mdadm, /proc/mdstat) — Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux system
Coming soon
1.3.5
Mounted storage: mounting (/etc/fstab, autofs, mount, umount), mount options (noatime, noexec, nosuid, ro, rw), network mounts (NFS, SMB/Samba) — Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux system
Coming soon
1.3.6
Inodes — Given a scenario, manage storage in a Linux system
Coming soon
1.4
Given a scenario, manage network services and configurations on a Linux server
1.4.1
Network configuration files (/etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/nsswitch.conf) — Given a scenario, manage network services and configurations on a Linux server
1.4.2
NetworkManager (nmcli, nmconnect) and Netplan (netplan apply/status/try, /etc/netplan) — Given a scenario, manage network services and configurations on a Linux server
1.4.3
Common network tools (arp, curl, dig, ethtool, hostname, ip, iperf3, mtr, nc, nmap, nslookup, ping, ss, tcpdump, tracepath, traceroute) — Given a scenario, manage network services and configurations on a Linux server
1.5
Given a scenario, manage a Linux system using common shell operations
1.5.1
Common environmental variables (DISPLAY, HOME, PATH, PS1, SHELL, USER) — Given a scenario, manage a Linux system using common shell operations
1.5.2
Paths: absolute (~, /) and relative (., .., -) — Given a scenario, manage a Linux system using common shell operations
1.5.3
Shell environment configurations (.bashrc, .bash_profile, .profile) — Given a scenario, manage a Linux system using common shell operations
1.5.4
Channel redirection (<, >, <<, >>, |, stdin, stdout, stderr, here docs) — Given a scenario, manage a Linux system using common shell operations
1.5.5
Basic shell utilities (alias, awk, cat, cut, echo, grep, head, history, sed, sort, tail, tee, tr, uname, wc, xargs) — Given a scenario, manage a Linux system using common shell operations
⌛ Essential Linux Shell Utilities for Beginners
· Coming 6 August 2026
1.5.6
Text editors (vi/vim, nano) — Given a scenario, manage a Linux system using common shell operations
Coming soon
1.6
Given a scenario, perform backup and restore operations for a Linux server
1.6.1
Archiving (cpio, tar) — Given a scenario, perform backup and restore operations for a Linux server
1.6.2
Compression tools (7-Zip, bzip2, gzip, unzip, xz) — Given a scenario, perform backup and restore operations for a Linux server
1.6.3
Other tools (dd, ddrescue, rsync, zcat, zgrep, zless) — Given a scenario, perform backup and restore operations for a Linux server
⌛ Understanding Data Recovery with Dd and Ddrescue on Linux
· Coming 13 August 2026
1.7
Summarize virtualization on Linux systems
1.7.1
Linux hypervisors (QEMU, KVM) — Summarize virtualization on Linux systems
1.7.2
Virtual machines: paravirtualized drivers, VirtIO, disk image operations, VM states, nested virtualization — Summarize virtualization on Linux systems
1.7.3
VM operations: resources (storage, RAM, CPU, network), templates, cloning, migrations, snapshots — Summarize virtualization on Linux systems
Coming soon
1.7.4
Network types (bridged, NAT, host-only, routed, open) and VM tools (libvirt, virsh, virt-manager) — Summarize virtualization on Linux systems
Coming soon
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Last updated 19 July 2026