Chapter 7. Filesystem

Table of Contents

FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standardization)

Permissions

Linux file systems

Copy filesystems

ISO file systems

Rock Ridge and Joilet

Mount a ISO image

Write ISO file system to a memory device

Microsoft File Systems

FAT

NTFS

Fix permissions

Encrypted File Systems

Encfs

Other encryption methods

Network filesystems

NFS

Links

Symbolic links

Hard links

Pipes and FIFO

Device files

mount and umount

bind mount

fstab

AutoFS

Mount removable media

Autorun

udev

udev rules

Advanced udev rules

Proc

Sys

Hard disk

DMA (Direct Memory Access)

Partitions

Defragmemt

Test programs

SMART (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)

CD and DVD

RAM disks

Floppy disks

Format

Mount

Floppy image files

Files containing file systems

Putting file systems onto SDcards

Checksum

MD5 Message-Digest algorithm 5

SHA-1 and SHA-2

MD160

Integrity of CD/DVD's

File indexing

Duplicate files

File Differences

Logical Volume Manager

Device Mapper

Filelight

Zip files

atool

bzip2

gzip and gunzip

tar

unrar

Zcat

Zip

Unison

Unison on the command line

Unison with Microsoft file systems