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City College of San Francisco - CS260A - Unix/Linux System Administration

Module: Filesystems
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 This module covers the use of filesystems on a Unix or linux system. It is divided into three sections.

Contents

Table of Contents - Filesystems

Part One - Introduction to Physical Filesystems

  1. Introduction to filesystems
  2. Overview of filesystems
  3. Use of multiple filesystems
  4. Formatting filesystems
  5. Use of device files
Part Two - Creating Physical Filesystems
  1. Partitioning
  2. Filesystem types
  3. Filesystem parameters
  4. Filesystem creation
  5. Mounting filesystems
Part Three - Managing Physical Filesystems
  1. The file system table
  2. Checking filesystems
  3. Logical volume managers 
  4. Swapping
  5. Managing Space
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