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Create, modify, and mount filesystems

Create, modify, and mount filesystems

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Create, modify, and mount filesystems

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- [Instructor] Once we have a partition on a device, we need to add a filesystem to it in order to store and keep track of files. Filesystems act like, well, filing systems, keeping track of pieces of data that we refer to as files and information about those files. It also provides a system for keeping files organized, or rather, presenting the lists of files that it knows about in a way that makes sense to us. There are many different kinds of filesystems, most of which Linux supports natively. But support for others can be added as well. In this video, we'll take a look at the more common filesystems on Linux and leave exploring the exotic ones aside. Probably the most common filesystems that you'll see are called Ext2, three, or four, depending on which version of the extended filesystem you're using. X2, Ext2, or the second extended filesystem, started out in the early 90s, and it's pretty standard across Linux installations. There was an extended filesystem before it, but it…

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