openSUSE Linux Unleashed

Chapter 18. Managing Files, Volumes, and Drives

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Choosing a File System

• Creating and Managing File Systems with Partitioner

• Mounting a File System

• Logical Volume Management (LVM)

• Finding Files

• File System Manipulation

• Managing Files for Character Devices, Block Devices, and Special Devices

• References

In the next four chapters, we will go over the system administration tasks you will have to know, whether you are managing a 1,000-seat network or a single system—your own.

Nearly everything you do in this chapter will be as Root/SuperUser. This is because you’re dealing with important system-related issues. As noted previously, when you are working with Root powers, you can do wonderful things quite easily. It is also just as easy to blow your ...