Linux LPIC 101

Partitions and the Boot Process

	Understanding Partitions
	Understanding fdisk
	Creating a Primary Partition
	Creating a Swap Partition
	Creating an Extended Partition
	Formatting Partitions
	Understanding File System Organization
	Booting Linux
	Understanding Runlevels
	Understanding the init Daemon
	Understanding LILO
	Shutting Down Linux

File Management

	Using Manual Pages
	Changing Directories
	Listing Directory Contents
	Identifying File Types
	Creating Viewing and Appending Files
	Paging Through Files
	Modifying Access and Modification Data
	Copying Files and Directories
	Moving Files and Directories
	Creating Directories
	Deleting Files and Directories
	Understanding Regular Expressions
	Searching File Content with grep
	Archiving Files with tar
	Compressing and Uncompressing Files with gzip
	Using gzip with tar

GNU and Linux Commands

	Understanding Shells
	Typing at the Command Line
	Editing and the Command Line
	Understanding Variables
	Customizing Environment Variables
	Working with the PATH Variable
	Working with the PROMPT Variable
	Working with the HOME Variable
	Understanding the History File
	Viewing the History File with fc
	Understanding Processes
	Listing Processes with ps and top
	Editing Process Priority with nice
	Managing Jobs
	Sending Signals to Processes

File System Maintenance

	Mounting Filesystems
	Unmounting Filesystems
	Filesystem Configuration Files
	Checking Filesystems
	Checking Disk Usage
	Disk Maintenance
	Understanding Disk Quotas
	Enabling Disk Quotas
	Setting Disk Quotas
	Verifying Disk Quotas
	Understanding Links
	Creating Hard Links
	Creating Symbolic Links
	Understanding the System File Hierarchy
	Finding Files
	Locating Files
	Identifying Commands

Users and Groups

	Using root
	Understanding the /etc/passwd File
	Managing User Passwords
	Creating Users by Editing /etc/passwd
	Creating Users with useradd
	Modifying Users with usermod
	Deleting Users
	Special User Accounts
	Understanding Groups
	Creating Groups
	Identifying Default Groups
	Modifying and Deleting Groups
	Understanding Systems Groups
	Working with Shadow Passwords
	Understanding User Startup Files

Text Streams

	Redirecting Output
	Using Pipes
	Filtering Text with sed
	Sorting and Joining
	Cutting and Pasting
	Viewing Files
	Modifying Text Format
	Dividing Files
	Editing File Contents

Permissions

	Changing the Owner of a File
	Changing the Group for a File
	Understanding File and Directory Access
	Understanding File Access
	Understanding Directory Access
	Changing Permissions with Symbols
	Changing Permissions with Numbers
	Special Permissions
	Setting Default Permissions

Administration and Documentation

	Scheduling Jobs with at
	Managing Jobs scheduled with at
	Scheduling Jobs with batch
	Scheduling Recurring Jobs
	Managing Recurring Jobs
	Managing System Jogging
	Configuring the System Logging Daemon
	Logging User Activity
	Rotating Logs
	Archiving Logs
	Using Logs for Troubleshooting
	Using Documentation
	Creating Documentation
	User Support

Backup and Restore

	Identifying Backup Requirements
	Choosing a Backup Strategy
	Planning a Backup
	Choosing a Backup Type
	Backup Storage and Retention
	Implementing Your Strategy
	Creating Backups with tar
	Restoring Files with tar
	Creating and Restoring Backups with cpio