Module 0209: Files in Linux, a user’s perspective

Module 0209: Files in Linux, a user’s perspective

Tak Auyeung, Ph.D.

January 26, 2010

1 About this module
2 The hard disk drive
2.1 The Master Boot Record (MBR)
2.2 The Partition Table
2.3 Boot order
3 Partitions
3.1 Multi-boot
3.2 Protection
4 Volumes
5 File systems
5.1 File system specification
5.2 File system driver
6 The VFS specification
6.1 The superblock
6.2 An Inode
6.3 Directories
6.4 Path specification
7 Mounting file systems
8 Regular files
9 Directories