1 organize files in a particular way, with particular
rules: Filenames can have only eight characters, for example, and no
permission information is stored. Linux calls this the msdos filesystem.
Linux also has its own filesystem, called the ext2 filesystem (version two
of the ext filesystem). You'll use the ext2 filesystem most of the time
unless you're accessing files from another operating system or have other
special needs.
Any physical device you wish to use for storing files must have at least
one filesystem on it. This means a filesystem in the second sense - a
hierarchy of files and directories, along with information about them. Of
course, any filesystem has a type, so the third sense will come into play
as well. If you have more than one filesystem on a single device, each
filesystem can have a different type - for example, you might have both a
DOS partition and a Linux partition on your hard disk.
mount and /etc/fstab
This section describes how to mount a floppy or Zip disk, discusses the
/dev directory, and addresses distributing the directory tree over
multiple physical devices or partitions.
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