One of the last things the Linux kernel does during system boot is mount the root filesystem. The Linux kernel dictates no filesystem structure, but user space applications expect to find files with ...

During the booting of Solaris, both the / and /usr file systems are mounted read-only and then later, before the boot process is fully complete, remounted read-write. This is all part of the normal ...

Configuration is the first step in building a kernel. There are many ways and various options to choose from. The kernel will generate a .config file at the end of the process and generate a series of ...

Linux provides quite a few commands to look into file system types. Here's a look at the various file system types used by Linux systems and the commands that will identify them. Linux systems use a ...

Solaris Volume Manager can make easy work of mirroring your root file system, but you have to use the right commands in the right sequence to make easy work of this task. In this week’s column, we’ll ...

The btrfsck command is a filesystem-check command like fsck, but it works with the btrfs file system. First a little bit about btrfs. As the name implies, btrfs uses a B-tree data structure that is ...

In this video, Robin Humble, NCINF, presents Lustre as a root file system. Recorded at the LUG’2011 conference in Orlando on April 13, 2011. Slides from the conference will be posted soon at the ...