Disk-Related Concepts

System administrators typically spend a great deal of time setting up, managing, and monitoring disks and file systems (see, for example Disk and File System Topics," in Chapter 4). The basics are covered here but I don't want to cover any setup procedures. Users typically aren't permitted access to the commands used to set up disks, file systems, and so on. It is still useful, however, to be able to view the way your system and environment have been set up.

This secion covers a variety of topics including viewing file systems, viewing swap space, viewing some setup files, and a review of Network File System (NFS).