Red Hat® Linux® 7 Unleashed

Chapter 18. Linux Filesystems, Disks, and Other Devices

In This Chapter

• Basic Concepts of Devices

• Filesystems

• The mount Command

• Mounting with the User Mount Tool

• Setting Up Filesystems

• Creating New Filesystems

• Creating and Editing Filesystems Graphically with fsconf and linuxconf

• Repairing Filesystems

• Various Kinds of Hardware

• Character Devices

One of the simplest and most elegant aspects of UNIX design is the way almost everything is represented as a file. Even the devices on which files are stored are represented as files.

Hardware devices are associated with drivers that provide a file interface; the special files representing hardware devices (or just devices) are kept in the directory /dev.