Working with Filesystems

The majority of your filesystem-level tasks can be accomplished from directly within YaST. If necessary, these same tasks can be accomplished from the command line using the tools in Table A.14.

Table A.14. Commands Used to Create and Manage Filesystems

COMMAND	GENERAL USAGE	DESCRIPTION
df	df [OPTIONS]	Displays disk usage statistics for all mounted filesystems. Common options include -h Return output in human readable form
du	du [OPTIONS] [PATH]	Displays disk usage statistics for the specified path. Common options include -h Return output in human readable form -s Provide a summary of the specified directory
fdisk	fdisk DEVICE	Used to modify the partition table for fixed disks.
fsck	fsck [OPTIONS] PARTITION	Utility used to check and repair a Linux filesystem. This utility should be used with care and after ensuring that appropriate backup measures have been taken. Common options include -a Automatically repair the filesystem -r Interactively perform the repair operation -V Produce verbose output of the operation For information on advanced repair options for fsck, including filesystem-specific options, see man fsck.
fuser	fuser [OPTIONS] PATH	Used to identify users or processes currently using a specific filesystem. Common options include -u Display user ids
mkfs	mkfs [OPTIONS] PARTITION	Formats a partition with the specified filesystem type.
mount	mount [OPTIONS] DEVICE MOUNT_POINT	Associates the specified device with a directory in the root filesystem structure. This is used to gain access to hard disk partitions and physical devices such as CD-ROMs. Common options include -t Filesystem type (ext2, reiserfs, iso9660, and so on) -o Filesystem-specific options (For information on filesystem- specific mount options, see man mount.)
umount	umount MOUNT_POINT	Unmounts the device currently ounted at the specified directory.