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Linux Administration Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Administration Cookbook Insightful recipes to work with system administration tasks on Linux

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789342529
Length 826 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction and Environment Setup 2. Remote Administration with SSH FREE CHAPTER 3. Networking and Firewalls 4. Services and Daemons 5. Hardware and Disks 6. Security, Updating, and Package Management 7. Monitoring and Logging 8. Permissions, SELinux, and AppArmor 9. Containers and Virtualization 10. Git, Configuration Management, and Infrastructure as Code 11. Web Servers, Databases, and Mail Servers 12. Troubleshooting and Workplace Diplomacy 13. BSDs, Solaris, Windows, IaaS and PaaS, and DevOps 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Current filesystem formats

There're a lot of filesystem formats out there—some are more popular than others; some are used for very specific tasks; some are the darlings of certain operating systems; and others simply should have gone away years ago.

In the Windows world, we typically see NTFS, but FAT32, exFAT, and even FAT16 in some cases are still options.

More recently, Apple has dropped the ageing HFS+ and moved full-steam toward APFS as its filesystem of the future.

FreeBSD defaults to either ZFS (if you've got the RAM for it) or UFS (if you haven't).

OpenBSD—well, OpenBSD uses FFS, which is exactly as good as it sounds.

Fast File System (FFS) is pretty much UFS.

Linux is a whole other kettle of fish because, not only does it do all of the filesystems listed previously, to a greater or lesser degree, it also has hundreds of others to pick from...

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