Chapter 9. Managing Files and Partitions

Section 9.1.  Introduction

Recipe 9.2.  Setting File and Directory Permissions with chmod's Numeric Notation

Recipe 9.3.  Doing Batch Operations with chmod

Recipe 9.4.  Setting File and Directory Permissions with chmod's Symbolic Notation

Recipe 9.5.  Setting File Ownership with chown

Recipe 9.6.  Doing Batch Operations with chown

Recipe 9.7.  Setting Up a Shared Directory with setgid and the Sticky Bit

Recipe 9.8.  Setting Permissions Defaults with umask

Recipe 9.9.  Mounting and Unmounting Removable Disks

Recipe 9.10.  Configuring Filesystem Mounts with /etc/fstab

Recipe 9.11.  Mounting and Unmounting Filesystems on Hard Drives

Recipe 9.12.  Finding Device Names for mount and fstab

Recipe 9.13.  Creating Files and Directories

Recipe 9.14.  Deleting Files and Directories

Recipe 9.15.  Copying, Moving, and Renaming Files and Directories

Recipe 9.16.  Creating Linux Disk Partitions with fdisk

Recipe 9.17.  Creating a Filesystem on a New Partition