LPIC I Exam Cram™ 2: Linux Professional Institute Certification Exams 101 and 102

Chapter 5. Partitioning and File Systems

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

Overview

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:

1. Install the device.

2. Partition ...