Topics

• Superblock
• Data Block
• Inode
• Relative Path
• File Metadata
• Hard and Soft Links
• Permission Bits
• Working with Directories
• Virtual File System
• Reliable File Systems
• RAID

Questions

• How big can files be on a file system with 15 Direct blocks, 2 double, 3 triple indirect, 4kb blocks and 4byte entries? (Assume enough infinite blocks)
• What is a superblock? Inode? Datablock?
• How do I simplify /./proc/../dev/./random/
• In ext2, what is stored in an inode, and what is stored in a directory entry?
• What are /sys, /proc, /dev/random, and /dev/urandom?
• What are permission bits?
• How do you use chmod to set user/group/owner read/write/execute permissions?
• What does the "dd" command do?
• What is the difference between a hard link and a symbolic link? Does the file need to exist?
• "ls -l" shows the size of each file in a directory. Is the size stored in the directory or in the file's inode?