The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 12 — Use separate filesystems for data
Author’s note: This article is excerpted in part from chapter 14 of my book, The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, with changes. There is a lot...
How I use SSHFS to access remote filesystems
I've taken a lot of digital pictures over the years, and scanned a bunch more prints into digital format. I've also collected a good number...
The Linux Philosophy for SysAdmins, Tenet 04 — Use the Linux FHS
The Linux Filesystem Hierarchical Standard (FHS) defines the structure of the Linux directory tree. It names a set of standard directories and designates their purposes.
The Linux Filesystem Hierarchical Standard
In Linux, and many other operating systems, directories can be structured in a tree-like hierarchy. The Linux directory structure is well defined and documented in the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). This standard has been put in place to ensure that all distributions of Linux are consistent in their directory usage. Such consistency makes writing and maintaining shell and compiled programs easier for SysAdmins because the programs, their configuration files, and their data, if any, should be located in the standard directories.
A user’s guide to links in the Linux filesystem
Learn how to use links, which make tasks easier by providing access to files from multiple locations in the Linux filesystem directory tree.
Everything is a file
When everything is a file Difficult things are easy and impossible things are merely hard.
An Introduction to Linux Filesystems
This article is intended to be a very high-level discussion of Linux filesystem concepts. It is not intended to be a low-level description of how...