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Manmohan Sharma, Lovely Professional University Unit 9: The File System

Unit 9: The File System Notes

CONTENTS

Objectives
Introduction
9.1 Concept of the File System
9.2 Anatomy of a File
9.2.1 Mounting File Systems
9.2.2 The Linux File System Locations

9.2.3 The Root File System /
9.2.4 The Variable Data Location /var
9.2.5 The Userland Location /usr
9.2.6 The Home Location /home

9.2.7 Permissions
9.2.8 Attributes
9.3 File Search Utilities
9.3.1 Locate Command
9.3.2 Find Command

9.3.3 GNOME
9.4 Navigating File System
9.4.1 Commands for Directory Navigation
9.5 Summary

9.6 Keywords
9.7 Review Questions
9.8 Further Readings

Objectives

After studying this unit, you will be able to:

z z Explain the concept of file system
z z Discuss anatomy of a file
z z Discuss file search utilities

z z Explain the concept of navigating file system
Introduction

The Linux file system is considered as a hierarchically structured tree. Here, each location has its
different meaning. The structure of file system is standardized through the file system hierarchy
standard. Lately however, more and more distributions are making a small change towards their

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