Filesystems HOWTO Filesystems HOWTO Table of Contents Filesystems HOWTO..........................................................................................................................................1 Martin Hinner < [email protected]>, http://martin.hinner.info............................................................1 1. Introduction..........................................................................................................................................1 1.1 Contacting the author.........................................................................................................................1 1.2 HOWTO Maintenance.......................................................................................................................1 1.3 Copyright...........................................................................................................................................2 1.4 Filesystems mailing-list.....................................................................................................................2 Linux kernel filesystems mailing-list................................................................................................2 FreeBSD filesystems mailing-list......................................................................................................2 1.5 Filesystems collection at metalab.unc.edu.........................................................................................2 1.6 Credits................................................................................................................................................2 1.7 Filesystems accessibility map............................................................................................................3 1.8 Introduction to contiguous allocation filesystems............................................................................3 1.9 Introduction to linked-list allocation filesystems...............................................................................4 1.10 Introduction to FAT-based filesystems............................................................................................4 1.11 Introduction to Inode filesystems.....................................................................................................4 1.12 Introduction to extent filesystems....................................................................................................4 1.13 Introduction to filesystems using balanced trees............................................................................4 1.14 Introduction to logging/journaling filesystems...............................................................................4 1.15 Other filesystem features................................................................................................................5 Quota................................................................................................................................................5 Snapshot...........................................................................................................................................5 ACLs................................................................................................................................................5 2. Volumes...............................................................................................................................................5 2.1 PC Partitions......................................................................................................................................5 GNU parted.......................................................................................................................................5 Repairing corrupted partition table....................................................................................................6 Fixdisktable.......................................................................................................................................6 gpart...................................................................................................................................................6 rescuept..............................................................................................................................................6 findsuper............................................................................................................................................6 2.2 Other partitions..................................................................................................................................7 ADFS partitions.................................................................................................................................7 Amiga partitions................................................................................................................................7 ATARI partitions...............................................................................................................................7 Macintosh partitions..........................................................................................................................7 OSF partitions....................................................................................................................................7 Sun partitions.....................................................................................................................................7 Ultrix partitions.................................................................................................................................7 2.3 Unix disklabels..................................................................................................................................7 BSD disklabel....................................................................................................................................7 UnixWare disklabel...........................................................................................................................7 SCO OpenServer disklabel................................................................................................................7 Sun Solaris disklabel.........................................................................................................................8 2.4 Windows NT volumes.......................................................................................................................8 Repairing "fault tolerant" NTFS disks using FTEdit.......................................................................8 2.5 MD - Multiple Devices driver for Linux...........................................................................................8 2.6 LVM - Logical Volume Manager (HP-UX LVM?).........................................................................8 i Filesystems HOWTO Table of Contents Filesystems HOWTO 2.7 VxVM - Veritas Volume Manager....................................................................................................9 2.8 IBM OS/2 LVM.................................................................................................................................9 2.9 StackVM............................................................................................................................................9 2.10 Novell NetWare volumes................................................................................................................9 3. DOS FAT 12/16/32, VFAT............................................................................................................9 3.1 VFAT: Long filenames......................................................................................................................9 3.2 UMSDOS: Linux LFN/attributes on FAT filesystem........................................................................9 3.3 OS/2 Extended Attributes on FAT filesystems................................................................................10 3.4 Star LFN..........................................................................................................................................10 3.5 Accessing VFAT from OS/2 (VFAT-OS2)....................................................................................10 3.6 Accessing VFAT from DOS (LFNDOS driver).............................................................................10 3.7 Accessing VFAT from DOS (Free LFNDOS driver).....................................................................10 3.8 Accessing VFAT from DOS (Odi's LFN tools)..............................................................................11 3.9 Accessing FAT32 from OS/2 (FAT32.IFS)....................................................................................11 3.10 Accessing FAT32 from Windows NT 4.0....................................................................................11 3.11 Accessing FAT32 from Windows NT 4.0....................................................................................11 3.12 Accessing Stac/Dblspaced/Drvspaced drives from Linux (DMSDOS)........................................12 3.13 Accessing Dblspaced/Drvspaced drives from Linux (thsfs).........................................................12 3.14 Fsresize - FAT16/32 resizer..........................................................................................................12 3.15 FIPS - FAT16 resizer....................................................................................................................13