"A conceptual understanding of file systems, especially data structure and related terms, will help you become a successful system administrator. I have seen many new Linux system administrator without any clue about file systems. The conceptual knowledge can be applied to restore file systems in an emergency situation."
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not a complete UNIX/linux article: non of the BSDs filesystem were mention
Not a complete Linux article either. There are more Linux filesystems than ext2/3 (and at least JFS, Reiser and XFS are used in production environments)
The remove-by-inode part is cute but you can delete his examples without it,
touch "la*
rm ""la*"
and
touch "+Xy +8"
rm "+Xy +8"
work just fine.
The rest seems more like a file-handling 101, nothing much conceptual to see here and I don't think it really furthers the understanding of file-systems.
Hans Reiser's homepage has an article about many of the concepts of current filesystems on the frontpage ( http://www.namesys.com/ )
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I'm sorry kids but no shell on earth will let you enter an unmatched quote, what planet are you trying that on? If you escape those odd quotes with a back slash, then and only then will that work.
You can mod that down all you want but there is no excuse for flaming someone's factual article with non-sensical un-tested shell commands. I find such silly syntax far more insulting. Respect your shell and get to know it. Besides that and to the point wildcards are a piss poor substitute for surgical removal by inode of badly named files. If you refuse to do it properly then at least check your pattern with an ls first.
