filesystem

This article was first written in December 2003 for
the BeezNest technical website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/99)

LVM [1] is a great system to resize filesystems and partitions online [2], do online snapshots of the filesystems, span filesystems and partitions on multiple drives.

This article was first written in January 2006 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/322).

The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS) is meant to be a reference on how to manage a Unix filesystem or directory hierarchy. It enables:

• software to predict the location of installed files and directories, and
• users to predict the location of installed files and directories.

Achieving this by:

• specifying guiding principles for each area of the filesystem,

This article was first written in January 2005 for the BeezNest technical
website (http://glasnost.beeznest.org/articles/202).

Solaris supports journalization (aka logging) on UFS filesystems which allows for shorter reboot times after a crash. To activate it, it is really simple: Go edit /etc/vfstab and add the term logging in the last column (mount options) for the UFS filesystems you want.