September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
640 pages
12h 53m
English
Terms you’ll need to understand:
✓ | Device file |
✓ | Disk utilization |
✓ | File system |
✓ | Inode |
✓ | Mounting/unmounting |
✓ | Primary, logical, and extended partitions |
✓ | Superblock |
Techniques you’ll need to master:
✓ | Identifying device types |
✓ | Identifying file system types |
✓ | Partitioning a disk |
✓ | Creating a file system |
✓ | Mounting a file system |
✓ | Unmounting a file system |
✓ | Checking a file system |
✓ | Tuning and debugging a file system |
✓ | Identifying disk usage |
Devices on a Linux system are not available to users unless the root user makes them so by setting their access and options in the appropriate configuration files.
The order in which to make a device usable for storing data (and having users access it) is as follows:
Install the device.
Partition ...
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