155Chapter 4Learning Basic AdministrationTable 4-4Supported File System TypesTypeDescriptionadfsAcorn (Business web hosting)
155Chapter 4Learning Basic AdministrationTable 4-4Supported File System TypesTypeDescriptionadfsAcorn disk file system, which is the standard file system used on RiscOS operatingsystems. befsFile system used by the BeOS operating system. cifsCommon Internet File System (CIFS), the virtual file system used to access serversthat comply with the SNIA CIFS specification. CIFS is an attempt to refine andstandardize the SMB protocol used by Samba and Windows file sharing. ext3Ext file systems are the most common in Red Hat and many other Linux systems. The ext3 file system, also called the Third Extended file system, includes journalingfeatures that, compared to ext2, improve a file system s capability to recover fromcrashes. ext2The default file system type for earlier Linux systems. Features are the same asext3, except that ext2 doesn t include journaling features. extThis is the first version of ext3. It is not used very often anymore. iso9660Evolved from the High Sierra file system (the original standard for CD-ROMs). Exten- sions to the High Sierra standard (called Rock Ridge extensions) allow iso9660 filesystems to support long filenames and UNIX-style information (such as file per- missions, ownership, and links). Data CD-ROMs typically use this file system type. kafsAFS client file system. Used in distributed computing environments to share fileswith Linux, Windows, and Macintosh clients. minixMinix file system type, used originally with the Minix version of UNIX. It supportsfilenames of up to only 30 characters. msdosAn MS-DOS file system. You can use this type to mount floppy disks that comefrom Microsoft operating systems. vfatMicrosoft extended FAT (VFAT) file system. umsdosAn MS-DOS file system with extensions to allow features that are similar to UNIX(including long filenames). procNot a real file system, but rather a file-system interface to the Linux kernel. Youprobably won t do anything special to set up a proc file system. However, the/procmount point should be a proc file system. Many utilities rely on /proctogain access to Linux kernel information. reiserfsReiserFS journaled file system. ReiserFS and ext3 are the most common filesystem types used with Linux today. swapUsed for swap partitions. Swap areas are used to hold data temporarily whenRAM is currently used up. Data is swapped to the swap area and then returned toRAM when it is needed again. Continued10_