UNIX Filesystems: Evolution, Design, and Implementation

Typographical Conventions

All of the program listings, UNIX commands, library functions, and system calls are displayed in a fixed-width font as shown here.

Many examples are shown that have required keyboard input. In such cases, all input is shown in a bold, fixed-width font. Commands entered by the superuser are prefixed with the # prompt while those commands which do not require superuser privileges are prefixed with the $ prompt.

Shown below is an example of user input:

$ ls -l myfile
-rw-r--r-   1 spate      fcf                 0 Feb 16 11:14 myfile