Challenges

Focused hands-on problems designed to help you hone your DevOps or Server Side skills. Some challenges are more educational, while others are based on real-world scenarios. The platform provides hints and feedback for each challenge, including automated solution checks.

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Challenges crafted by iximiuz Labs to help you master DevOps and Server Side topics.

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Challenge, Hard, on Linux

Split a Drive into Multiple Partitions And Format Them as Ext4 and Btrfs

by Ivan Velichko

Create two partitions on a blank disk: one smaller ext4 for service logs and the rest btrfs for service data. Mount both and prove they work.

storage drive partition-table mount filesystem

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Challenge, Medium, on Linux

Create a GUID Partition Table (GPT) on a Blank Drive

by Ivan Velichko

Practice creating a fresh GPT partition, formatting it as ext4, and mounting it on the filesystem tree.

storage drive partition-table mount filesystem

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Challenge, Easy, on Linux

Mount a Drive with Existing Data and Read Its Contents

by Ivan Velichko

CTF-style challenge: discover an unmounted device, mount it, and read the flag file from it.

storage mount drive filesystem