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Creating and Configuring File System Options: Andrew Mallett

This document discusses creating and configuring file system options in Linux. It covers: 1. Auto-mounting remote shares using autofs by configuring the auto.master and auto.* files. 2. Creating ISO files from directories using mkisofs and mounting ISO files on Linux. 3. Encrypting entire disks or partitions with LUKS full disk encryption by formatting partitions with cryptsetup and adding entries to crypttab. A demo is provided showing how to set up each of these file system configurations.

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Creating and Configuring File System Options: Andrew Mallett

This document discusses creating and configuring file system options in Linux. It covers: 1. Auto-mounting remote shares using autofs by configuring the auto.master and auto.* files. 2. Creating ISO files from directories using mkisofs and mounting ISO files on Linux. 3. Encrypting entire disks or partitions with LUKS full disk encryption by formatting partitions with cryptsetup and adding entries to crypttab. A demo is provided showing how to set up each of these file system configurations.

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Creating and Configuring File System Options

Andrew Mallett
@theurbanpenguin | www.theurbanpenguin.com
Objective 203.3
Creating and Configuring File System Options
Lab Setup
To demonstrate we will use CentOS 7. The
system is virtualized and has an additional
disk with a single partition as yet
unformatted /dev/sde1. This will be used as
an encrypted LUKS partition.

Additionally we have a remote NFS server


that we use to demonstrate autofs.
What Do You Need to Know

• Auto-mounting with autofs


• Creating ISO files
• Mounting ISO files
• Full disk encryption with LUKS
Auto-mount

auto.corp
auto.master
yum install autofs Configure target
Configure /corp
shares /corp/pdf

mkdir /corp cd /corp/pdf Timeout 5 minutes


/corp /etc/auto.corp --timeout=900

/etc/auto.master
The autofs service is a client utility used to auto-mount remote shares
pdf -fstype=nfs 192.168.0.53:/pdf

/etc/auto.corp
These shares are defined in the auto.* file. Here the /corp/pdf directory will be auto-
created and mounted to the remote share
$ sudo systemctl enable autofs
$ sudo systemctl restart autofs

Starting autofs on CentOS 7


Demo: Auto-mounting with autofs
$ mkisofs -V BOOT -J -r -o /tmp/boot.iso /boot

Creating ISO Files


Creating ISO file systems from directories is easy with mkisofs.
Mounting ISO Files

ISO files have always been mountable in


Linux
mount -o loop /tmp/boot.iso /mnt
/tmp/boot.iso /mnt iso9660 auto,loop 0 0
[/tmp/dvd.iso /mnt udf auto,loop 0 0]
Demo: Making and Mounting ISO Files
# cryptsetup -v -y luksFormat /dev/sde1
# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sde1 secure
# ls -l /dev/mapper/secure
# mkfs.ext4 /dev/mapper/secure
# mount /dev/mapper/secure /secure

Full Disk Encryption


For added security a complete disk or partition can be encrypted with LUKS
[Dev Mapper Name] [Device or UUID] [Passphrase]
secure /dev/sde1 none

/etc/crypttab
Instruction for cryptsetup can be added to the /etc/crypttab file
Demo: Disk Encryption
Creating and Configuring File System Options

The magic of autofs


auto.master and auto.*
Making and mounting ISO files
Disk encryption with LUKS
Next Up: Configuring RAID in Linux

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