SUSE™ Linux 10 Unleashed

Chapter 18. Managing Files, Volumes, and Drives

IN THIS CHAPTER

• Choosing a File System

• Creating and Managing File Systems with Expert Partitioner

• Mounting a File System

• Logical Volume Management (LVM)

• Finding Files

• File System Manipulation

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

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 ...