Module 0175: Linux Server File Systems (local)

Tak Auyeung, Ph.D.

June 6, 2009
1 About this module
2 File System Hierarchy
 2.1 What is a physical drive?
 2.2 What is a “block device”?
 2.3 What is a partition?
 2.4 What is a file system?
3 Benefits of partitioning
4 Disadvantages of partitioning
5 LVM (logical volume management)
6 RAID
7 Stacking up everything