Overview

File system management on Linux is pretty easy once a person has experience and knowledge of what he is doing.

File system Management

File systems can be two kinds:

Non-Journal File systems: ext2.

These file systems do not keep logs and can have corrupted data if there has been a power outage. The pluses of these file systems is their fast read/write speed.

Journal File systems: ext3,ext4.

These file systems keep a log (journal) which slows them down, however it is up to the System Admin to decide if he/she is willing to sacrifice speed for consistency.

Maintenance and basic administration

Basic Administration

Crontab

Libraries

Network

Samba

ZFS Storage

Firewall

Kernel Settings

Using Strace

NFS Management

File system management with LVM

File System management without LVM

Shell Scripts

iSCSI configuration

Troubleshooting