A Practical Guide to Fedora™ and Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®

12. Files, Directories, and Filesystems

In This Chapter

Important Files and Directories 502

Ordinary Files, Directories, Links, and Inodes 515

Device Special Files 515

Filesystems 519

mount: Mounts a Filesystem 520

fstab: Keeps Track of Filesystems 524

fsck: Checks Filesystem Integrity 525

Objectives

After reading this chapter you should be able to:

• List four important directories and describe their uses

• List common system startup configuration files and describe their uses

• List typical network configuration files and describe their uses

• List common login configuration files and describe their uses

• List a few device filenames and describe their uses

• Define the seven types of files found on the system

• Describe several filesystem ...