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3.2 Managing File Systems

As a system administrator, you can create, modify, and delete filesystems. Maintaining a filesystem is often not needed in a good filesystem.

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Subsections

• 3.2.1 Filesystem Basics
  • 3.2.1.0.1 Journaling File Systems
  
  
• 3.2.2 Filesystem Types
• 3.2.3 Mounting Filesystems
  • 3.2.3.1 Terms
  
  
• 3.2.4 Creating Filesystems
  • 3.2.4.1 Make a filesystem
    • 3.2.4.1.1 fdisk
    • 3.2.4.1.2 mke2fs
    • 3.2.4.1.3 Creating Swap Space
    • 3.2.4.1.4 Enabling Swap Space
    • 3.2.4.1.5 Disabling Swap Space
    • 3.2.4.1.6 ISO : mkisofs
  
  
• 3.2.5 Checking and Repairing Filesystems
  • 3.2.5.0.1 fsck