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| what command lets you manage partitions? |
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| a filesystem is a technology that includes a database and a particular kind of directory structure. linux filesystems use superblocks and inode tables as their database. |
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| what command lets you put a filesystem on a partition? |
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| mkfs and its cousins (mke2fs, mkfs.ext3, mkfs.nfs,..), |
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| what does it mean to mount a partition? |
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| associate a partition with a directory name such that inspecting the directory is inspecting the directory tree on the filesystem of the partition. |
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| what command lets you see which partitions are available? |
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| what command lets you see how much data is stored on each available partition? |
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| what is the difference between a hard link and a soft link? |
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| a file that is hard linked to another associate its name with the inode number of the file to which it is linked; a file that is a soft link has as its contents the pathname of the file to which it is linked. |
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