Lesson 26. Maintaining Local Volumes and Files
Mac OS X supports several file-system types. In this lesson, the first of four focusing on file services, you will learn how the differences between these types can affect the experience of users and system administrators. For example, Mac OS X stores metadata differently on different file-system types, which affects the appearance and behavior of files. Mac OS X has inherited features from UNIX, as well as from earlier versions of the operating system. Sometimes the UNIX features and Apple features are similar in purpose but different in behavior. This lesson covers symbolic links and aliases, which are also similar in purpose yet are different enough to possibly cause confusion. Mac OS X keeps track of mounted volumes by means of disk arbitration, another topic focused on in this lesson, and you'll learn to update that information from the command line. You will also learn several command-line tools for monitoring and troubleshooting file systems. |