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D. BothUsing and Administering Linux: Volume 2https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9615-8_24

24. Special Filesystems

David Both1  
(1)
Raleigh, NC, USA
 

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn

  • What constitutes a special filesystem

  • Practical uses for two of the special filesystems, /proc and /sys

  • The use of some of the tools that allow easy access to view system data in these special filesystems

  • How to create and manage swap files

  • Using Zram for swap

  • Some differing recommendations for swap size

Introduction

In Chapter 23, we looked at some tools like top that allow SysAdmins to look inside the running Linux kernel. We also discussed the observer effect, ...

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