Table Of Contents - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

Introduction
1. Document Conventions ................................................................................................ xxiii
2. Send in Your Feedback ............................................................................................... xxvi
I. File Systems
1. File System Structure
1.1. Why Share a Common Structure? ......................................................................... 3
1.2. Overview of File System Hierarchy Standard (FHS) ................................................ 3
1.2.1. FHS Organization ...................................................................................... 3
1.3. Special File Locations Under Red Hat Enterprise Linux .......................................... 8
2. The ext3 File System
2.1. Features of ext3 ................................................................................................. 11
2.2. Creating an ext3 File System .............................................................................. 11
2.3. Converting to an ext3 File System ....................................................................... 12
2.4. Reverting to an ext2 File System ........................................................................ 12
3. The proc File System
3.1. A Virtual File System .......................................................................................... 15
3.1.1. Viewing Virtual Files ................................................................................ 15
3.1.2. Changing Virtual Files .............................................................................. 16
3.2. Top-level Files within the proc File System ......................................................... 16
3.2.1. /proc/apm ............................................................................................. 16
3.2.2. /proc/buddyinfo ................................................................................. 17
3.2.3. /proc/cmdline ..................................................................................... 17
3.2.4. /proc/cpuinfo ..................................................................................... 18
3.2.5. /proc/crypto ....................................................................................... 19
3.2.6. /proc/devices ..................................................................................... 19
3.2.7. /proc/dma ............................................................................................. 20
3.2.8. /proc/execdomains ............................................................................. 20
3.2.9. /proc/fb ............................................................................................... 21
3.2.10. /proc/filesystems ........................................................................... 21
3.2.11. /proc/interrupts ............................................................................. 21
3.2.12. /proc/iomem ....................................................................................... 22
3.2.13. /proc/ioports ................................................................................... 23
3.2.14. /proc/kcore ....................................................................................... 23
3.2.15. /proc/kmsg ......................................................................................... 23
3.2.16. /proc/loadavg ................................................................................... 24
3.2.17. /proc/locks ....................................................................................... 24
3.2.18. /proc/mdstat ..................................................................................... 24
3.2.19. /proc/meminfo ................................................................................... 25
3.2.20. /proc/misc ......................................................................................... 26
3.2.21. /proc/modules ................................................................................... 27
3.2.22. /proc/mounts ..................................................................................... 27
3.2.23. /proc/mtrr ......................................................................................... 28
3.2.24. /proc/partitions ............................................................................. 28
3.2.25. /proc/pci ........................................................................................... 29
3.2.26. /proc/slabinfo ................................................................................. 29
3.2.27. /proc/stat ......................................................................................... 30
3.2.28. /proc/swaps ....................................................................................... 31
3.2.29. /proc/sysrq-trigger ....................................................................... 32
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