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Create a new page

  • First search for your intended page, when it does not exist you will be prompted to create it

Creating Headings

To Create a Contents box like the one above, Create headings throughout your article between "="

See this article as an example:
Help:Lab template

= Introduction =
= Section 1 =
== Subsection ==
= Section 2 =

Formating Text

bold and italics

Description You type You get
character (inline) formatting – applies anywhere
Italic text
''italic''

italic

Bold text
'''bold'''

bold

Bold and italic
'''''bold & italic'''''

bold & italic

Strike text
<strike> strike text </strike>
strike text

lists

wikitext rendering
* Lists are easy to do:
** start every line
* with a star
** more stars mean
*** deeper levels
  • Lists are easy to do:
    • start every line
  • with a star
    • more stars mean
      • deeper levels
*A newline
*in a list  
marks the end of the list.
Of course
*you can
*start again.
  • A newline
  • in a list

marks the end of the list. Of course

  • you can
  • start again.
# Numbered lists are good
## very organized
## easy to follow
  1. Numbered lists are good
    1. very organized
    2. easy to follow
* You can also
**break lines
**like this
  • You can also
    • break lines
    • like this

Creating Links

Description You type You get
Link to a page on this wiki
[[Triage NAS Cluster]]
Triage NAS Cluster
Link to a wikipedia page
[[wikipedia:FluidFS]]
wikipedia:FluidFS
Link to a wiki category
[[:Category:Labs]]
Category:Labs
Link to an external webpage
http://support.dell.com/
http://support.dell.com/
Display an image
[[File:Example.jpg]]
Link to an uploaded pdf with alt text
[[Media:680-074-001.pdf | FS8600 Deployment Guide]]
FS8600 Deployment Guide

Formating Code

Description You type You get
Marking text as code without any formatting
<pre>
   #!/bin/bash
   fileCount=800000
   b=0
   while [ $b -le $fileCount ]
   do
           echo B = $b
           dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/nfs/file$b.txt bs=2k count=1
           ((b++))
   done
</pre>
   #!/bin/bash
   fileCount=800000
   b=0
   while [ $b -le $fileCount ]
   do
           echo B = $b
           dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/nfs/file$b.txt bs=2k count=1
           ((b++))
   done
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<syntaxhighlight lang="bash" highlight="6" style="display: inline-block;">
   #!/bin/bash
   fileCount=800000
   b=0
   while [ $b -le $fileCount ]
   do
           echo B = $b
           dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/nfs/file$b.txt bs=2k count=1
           ((b++))
   done
</syntaxhighlight><br><br>
   #!/bin/bash
   fileCount=800000
   b=0
   while [ $b -le $fileCount ]
   do
           echo B = $b
           dd if=/dev/urandom of=/mnt/nfs/file$b.txt bs=2k count=1
           ((b++))
   done


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