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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By : Arturo Fernandez Montoro
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Linux Mint System Administrator's Beginner's Guide

By: Arturo Fernandez Montoro

Overview of this book

<p>System administrators are responsible for keeping servers and workstations working properly. They perform actions to get a secure, stable, and robust operating system. In order to do that, system administrators perform actions such as monitoring, accounts maintenance, restoring backups, and software installation. All these actions and tasks are crucial to business success.<br /><br />"Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide" is a practical and concise guide that offers you clear step-by-step exercises to learn good practices, commands, tools, and tips and tricks to convert users into system administrators in record time.<br /><br />You’ll learn how to perform basic operations, such as create user accounts and install software. Moving forward, we’ll find out more about important tasks executed daily by system administrators.</p> <p><br />Data and information are very important so you’ll learn how to create and restore backups. You will also learn about one of the most important points of an operating system: security.</p> <p><br />Thanks to "Linux Mint System Administrator’s Beginner’s Guide", you’ll learn all the basics you need to install and keep a robust and reliable Linux Mint operating system up to date.</p>
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Linux Mint System Administration Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Filesystem types


Computer data is stored and organized in a specific system in storage devices. The operating system should be able to store, organize, access, and update that data. In order to execute all these operations, a filesystem is used. All files and folders inside a storage device are organized by a filesystem, and the operating system deals with it. A storage device can be a hard drive, an external USB drive, or a set of files and folders on a network.

Each filesystem offers the system administrators and users a set of metadata to work with it. This metadata includes information such as length of a data contained in a file, the owner of a file, and the time that the file was last modified. Currently, you can find a lot of filesystems, and each family of operating systems is able to work with many of them. The Linux kernel is the main component of the operating system that deals directly with filesystems. Also, Linux distributions offer tools and techniques to work with different...