Filesystem Organization
In Linux, all data are stored as files. A filesystem is the way these files are organized. This means not only how you see them when they are represented in file listings, but also how they are organized at a low level so they can be stored and retrieved. As you’ll see in this chapter, filesystems can be local or remote. In this section, you’ll review some basics of a filesystem, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), how filesystems can be organized, and when it is practical to configure a Linux filesystem in read-only mode.
Filesystem Basics
At its core, a filesystem is a way of organizing information to find it more easily. Filesystems are configured to store data in the form of files or, sometimes, resources that ...
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