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Printed Page 39
2nd paragraph from bottom

> you may create multiple filesystems... -- for example, you
> may wish to use separate filesystems for /usr and /home...
> In "Creating Filesystems" in Chapter 10 we discuss the use
> of multiple partitions and filesystems.

This subject (why you might want to use separate filesystem partitions for /temp or /var, for example) does not appear to be discussed in Chapter 10 or elsewhere.

Anonymous  Apr 04, 2012 
Printed Page 438
2nd paragraph

"When you want to use tar in conjunction with bzip2, you need to tell tar about your compression program preferences, like this:

tar cfv tarfile.tar.bz2 --use-compress-program=bzip2 files...

Or, shorter:

tar cfv tarfile.tar.bz2 --use-compress-program=bzip2 files...
[...]"

As you can see, the two commands are exactly the same. I believe, instead of '--use-compress-program=bzip2' in the shorter version just '--bzip2' was intended:


tar cfv tarfile.tar.bz2 --bzip2 files...

 Anonymous  Jun 29, 2009 
Printed Page 598
last paragraph

First sentence ends "... power management settings, and so one."

This should read "... power management settings, and so on."

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 622
4th paragraph

This paragraph begins with "Now we'll talk about how to load and unload modules.."
But the title above it reads "Installing the kernel". There's no information in the
book about copying the bzImage to /boot, system.map or initrd.img etc that i can
find.

Also, the index lists pp 527-562 as page numbers for installing the kernel. But this
section is about samba.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 821
Top of the page - code example

The PHP code example calls the function show_semester( ). It's name should be show_halfyear( ) based
on the function definitions on page 820.

 Anonymous