Description: Discussion of Disks, Partitions, Super Blocks, inode tables, and a few of the commands used to manipulate these.
Topics Covered include:
- MBR and GPT (fdisk, gdisk, blkid, lsblk)
- mkfs and it's relatives including mkswap
- filesystem types (Windows vs. Unix)
- filesystem types - Windows (NTFS, FAT16, FAT32)
- filesystem types - DVDs (iso9660, udf, Joliet)
- filesystem types - Unix (ext2, ext3, ext4, reiserfs, btrfs, xfs, zfs, etc)
- The e2 commands (e2label, tune2fs, e4defrag, dump2fs, etc.)
- mount and umount
- /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab
- filesystem corruption (fsck and backups)
- dd and it's uses in creating virtual disks and filesystems
- filesystem on disk, on SD, on files, etc.
- Advanced filesytems
- lvm
- raid
- compressed filesystems
- Unionfs
Designed to be used in: CIS 240L (Maybe useful in CS 140U as well.)
Associated Lab: Lab 5 – Filesystem Administration
