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Christopher Negus

"Linux Bible, 2008 Edition: Boot up to Ubuntu, Fedora, KNOPPIX, Debian, openSUSE, and 11 Other Distributions"

CIFS is an attempt to refine and standardize
the SMB protocol used by Samba and Windows file sharing.
ext3 Ext 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 journaling features
that, compared to ext2, improve a file system??™s capability to recover from crashes.
ext2 The default file system type for earlier Linux systems. Features are the same as ext3,
except that ext2 doesn??™t include journaling features.
ext This is the first version of ext3. It is not used very often anymore.
iso9660 Evolved from the High Sierra file system (the original standard for CD-ROMs).
Extensions to the High Sierra standard (called Rock Ridge extensions) allow iso9660
file systems to support long filenames and UNIX-style information (such as file
permissions, ownership, and links). Data CD-ROMs typically use this file system type.
kafs AFS client file system. Used in distributed computing environments to share files with
Linux, Windows, and Macintosh clients.
minix Minix file system type, used originally with the Minix version of UNIX. It supports
filenames of up to only 30 characters.
msdos An MS-DOS file system. You can use this type to mount floppy disks that come from
Microsoft operating systems.


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