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Abstract
This guide pro vides instructio ns on ho w to effectively manage storage devices and file systems
on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 . It is intended for use by system administrato rs with basic to
intermediate knowledge o f Red Hat Enterprise Linux o r Fedo ra.