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- Accessing local and remote file systems
- Introduction
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- _L_i_n_u_x manage all file-systems as a single large tree. This is
- different from _D_O_S which manage all hard drives and network volumes as
- a set of independent unit (C: D: E:).
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- The first partition accessed by _L_i_n_u_x is called the _r_o_o_t. The top-
- level directory is called //. The other partitions (and network
- volumes) may be installed anywhere in the file-system tree.
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- For example, you can setup your _L_i_n_u_x system like this.
-
- ╖ /D
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- ╖ /E
-
- ╖ /servers/server1/vol1
-
- ╖ /servers/server1/vol2
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- ╖ /servers/server2/apps
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- ╖ /servers/server2/util
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- These directories are called _"_m_o_u_n_t _p_o_i_n_t_s_". They are initially empty.
- _L_i_n_u_x will logically install the different partitions and volumes
- right there.
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- All of this to tell you that you have to tell which partitions/volumes
- go where.
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- Your computer may have several hard drive. Each one may have several
- subdivisions. These are called partitions. Each of those can be
- thought as a smaller hard drive.
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- Unless told so, Linux won't access those partitions.
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- So here you are.
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- Most NFS server (Generally Unix server) have a list of file systems
- available to user's workstation. You can logically install one server
- volume in one empty directory, merely extending the span of you local
- hard drives.
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- _L_i_n_u_x may have up to 16 swap spaces active at one time. A swap space
- is used to extend your computer RAM. If you don't have a swap, get one
- here.
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