Index_F

F

facility, syslog, 66 “67

faxing, 71

fdformat , 229

fdisk , 38 “41

fg , 20. See also job control

file , 8

file descriptor, 77

file mark. See tape drives , file mark

files

archiving and compressing, 25 “27

as swap, 52 ( see also swap)

comparing, 8

copying, 4 ( see also files, transferring)

deleting, 5

device ( see files, special)

editing, 13, 158 “159, 312

extensions, 157 “158

finding, 9

identifying type, 8

listing, 4

matching ( see Bourne shell, wildcards)

moving and renaming, 4

open , 77 “78

permissions, 21 “24, 151 “152

regular, 22

sorting, 9

special, 33 “34, 37 “38, 77

temporary, 155 “156

testing, 150 “151

transferring, 133, 160 “161, 295 “301 ( see also rsync )

type, 22, 33 “34, 150 “151

viewing, 8 “9

filesystems

buffering, 44

capacity, 47 “48

checking and repairing, 48 “50

creating, 42

FAT, 41, 45 “46, 214, 228

ISO9660, 41, 44 “45, 214, 230 “231

kernel configuration, 213 “214

mount options, 42 “47

mounting (attaching), 42 “44, 224, 228

proc, 30, 50 “51, 214

Reiser, 41

second extended, 41 “42

SMB, 293

third extended, 41 “42, 50

tmpfs, 51

types, 41 “42

Windows and MS-DOS ( see filesystems, FAT)

find , 9

firewall

accepting packets, 115

command reference, 117 “118

denying connections, 115

description, 113 “114

IP chain, 114

IP table, 114 “118

kernel configuration, 211 “212

order of rules, 115 “116

policy, 114

strategies, 116 “117

Firewire. See devices, IEEE 1394

firmware, 322

flash media. See devices, flash media

floppy disks. See devices, floppy disks

foomatic, 243, 255 “256

for , 153 “154

fsck , 48 “50

fstab . See /etc/fstab