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Managing File Systems

The ability to manage the configuration and availability of file systems is an important system administration skill, particularly for systems heavily involved in a network's infrastructure. At various times, you might need to configure and add an additional hard drive to a server system or provide system services with access to files on a separate file server. For these types of tasks, you need to know how to create, mount, and unmount file systems.

Creating a file system refers to the process by which a hard drive or other storage device is made ready to store files (this process is often called formatting in other operating systems). Mounting a file system refers to the process of making the contents of a device or network ...