RHCE - Part 1
Filesystems
- Block Devices have filesystems
- ext3: standard Red Hat Linux filesytem
- Based on ext2
- Keeps journal of file operations
- faster recover of power outages
- reiserfs: suported by Red Hat
- xfs, jfs: still in development, not yet supported
- Create filesystem: mkfs
- Linux Directory Structure
- Separate flesystems in directory for: flexibility, containment, quotas, recovery
- Root Filesystem (/) Must contain
- /boot (to avoid BIOS 1024 cylinder limit). Contains
- Kernel
- any ramdisks
- second-stage boot-loader
- Other mount points:
- /tpm
- /usr
- /usr/local
- /home
- /var
- /opt